Nasa's Failure
NASA has earned the nation’s trust over the past half century. There is another side of NASA that no news agency or magazine ever focuses on, however. They have drawn attention away from their mistakes and even possibly covered up disasters. All of the attention goes to only a handful of successful missions and none to their crippling inefficiencies.
NASA was originally created to counter the Soviet space program. The first astronauts were merely Air Force test pilots and had no training in the fields of science. The goal of NASA was plain and simple: beat the Russians into space.
The American space program was designed to be relatively safe. This meant it was on a much slower timeline than the Russian program. While the United States was sending monkeys into orbit, the Soviets were prepping for a manned flight. This culminated with the launch of Yuri Gagaran into orbit. He was the first man in history to ever achieve this feat. The Soviets did not beat the Americans......
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