History Of The Mol Space Station
“The United States has been in space from the very beginning; its intentions are not sinister or evil. The United States is there to help preserve its security and to defend itself and it will use the tools and techniques that make strategic, tactical, and economic sense to achieve defense and security. If that proves to include military man in space, then it will acquire the systems to do that.”
On May 1, 1960 the United States and Soviet Union entered into an even more tense situation than before when American pilot Gary Powers’ U-2 Spy Plane was shot down by a Soviet Union S-75 Divina surface to air missile. As tension mounted, several questions began to arise; how was the United States supposed to protect itself and conduct surveillance if the one plane they thought was untouchable was now in jeopardy?
The beginning of the 1960s began a space race that went virtually unknown to the public eye. While NASA was creating plans to reach the moon, the United States Air......
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