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Topic Title: Space, the Cold War and astronauts.
Topic Summary: Mercury rising.
Created On: 06/09/2021 06:45 PM
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 Space, the Cold War and astronauts.   - johnnyboy - 06/09/2021 06:45 PM  
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http://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/...-launch-space-program
>> At the time] it felt actually that the Soviets might be onto something, that, in fact, communism might indeed be as they said it was: the wave of the future. The world was watching this contest. America's allies were watching. Soviet Russians themselves were watching, and the so-called undecided nations of the world were watching. These were mostly developing countries that were coming out of colonialism, and many of them were said to be deciding which system they were going to follow. Were they going to become democracies, or were they going to essentially sign up with the communists in the Cold War? And one of the things that they were watching [was] to see which system better provided for their people in the future, which system offered more in terms of science, technology and economic advancement, [and] what was happening in space was seen as the great indicator of the future. And America was losing that fight.<<




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