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My favourite thing about the #SpaceRace is that the urgency forced the US to make a state space program to keep up with the USSR. They had to keep the program fully state-controlled in order to prove that Capitalism is the best. I hope the irony wasn't lost on them.
@cosine They thought they had to keep the program fully state-controlled. That does not mean they were right.
Besides, the Kzinti Lesson teaches that any reaction drive can be used as a weapon and support for gun control in the US was peaking at the time the space program started.
