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Pretty much all of the early rocket and space development was the result of WWII and the Cold War.
by onewaystreet 10y ago
Pretty much all of the early rocket and space development was the result of WWII and the Cold War.
- PeterisP 10y agoAnd pretty much all space development stagnated as soon as the interests of space exploration diverged from the applications useful for military. When we/they wanted to put the first satellites in orbit, that shit was serious and got done with extreme speed, due to obvious implications of nuclear-tipped ICBMs. After that we got excessive investments in spy satellites and communications technologies, which resulted in civilian applications such as GPS and satellite TV, but practical interest (and founding) for anything beyond geostationary orbit pretty much stopped after the initial dick-measuring propaganda competition.