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Having a schoolteacher become an astronaut and broadcasting a disaster on live TV kids back the US Space Program tremendously. Also the Cold War ended so the
by supertrope 3y ago
Having a schoolteacher become an astronaut and broadcasting a disaster on live TV kids back the US Space Program tremendously.
Also the Cold War ended so the motivation behind funding dual use aerospace technologies weakened. (The same technology that can propel astronaut capsules and satellites into space and recover them can also launch nukes).