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FROM THE ARCHIVES

10 YEARS AGO

February 2012

“Human spaceflight in America got off on the wrong foot, born as it was in the national Cold War panic over and the space race with the Soviet Union. In our rush to beat the godless commies, instead of focusing on the steady longterm establishment of a competitive launch industry that would eventually make spaceflight affordable, Americans used unreliable ballistic missiles

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