13. A major purpose of the "space race" was so the US/USSR could say to each other:
"Look! If we can do that with a rocket, you know we can drop a nuke on Moscow/Washington"
I always thought the moon stuff was inspiring and exciting. But it also served propaganda purposes in the Cold War. And it would be silly to ignore the military message
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