Not to spoil a cold war joke about excesses of American procurement, but that story has been debunked pretty thoroughly: https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti

Not to spoil a cold war joke about excesses of American procurement, but that story has been debunked pretty thoroughly: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...