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Old 15-January-2007, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Wombaticus Rex View Post
Of course it's still a Space Race! Pay attention. The US Military still speaks perfectly frankly about the need for "space dominance" -- that's a strategic nescessity as far as they're concerned. Don't kid yourself about a "new age" of global co-operation.
Dunno, the footrace is over, as near as I can tell. We're coming up on the St. Augustine/Roanoake period of spaceflight. We've got a foothold in the Canary Islands (the ISS) and we've had a few touch and go arrivals in Hispaniola (the Apollo program), and we're coming up on the first tenative long term landfalls.
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