Jesper de Jong wrote:I guess that was much more important than Yuri Gagarin's historical flight.
Pat Farrell wrote:The space race was about developing technology to launch nuclear war on countries on the other side of the world.
Joe Ess wrote:R-7 Semyorka the first true ICBM, was deployed in 1959. Gagarin's flight was in 1961. If what you say were true, I'd expect the opposite series of events.
Joe Ess wrote: I was referring to your assertion that the space race was a cover story for ICBM development. If the ICBM comes first and everyone knows about it, human space flight doesn't make a good cover story.
Pat Farrell wrote: But I meant it as an example of government deliberately obfuscating the real goal.
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