> treating nasa as a credible agency to be concerned about i wait for the day that anons start paying attention to the history of icbm and saterlite development and realised that the space race was a white of nasa acting as a pr firm for the us airforce as well as the nro.  where do you think they got the designs for their orbital vehicles and eva suits? it wasn't in house with nasa, they relied on the airforce and the nro research and development team for that. nasa was the public arm of the us military's space agency, von braun was the face for the public to turn to for his pet project rocket designs. it is why when nasa fulfilled its ultimate feat with the moon landing that funding was slashed. they served their purpose and the news cycle and marketed "space race" had run its course while nro espionage saterlite constellations were being launched up week after week between nasa test launches, something that still happens today as the media fixates on the competition between nasa as well as space x.
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