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...space race used to be of tremendous political importance--Sputnik and Apollo 11 sent shockwaves through the whole world in 1957 and 1969. Now, however, the former Soviet Union cannot afford to pursue the space race...
Krikalev's troubles are symbolic of what has happened to the Soviet space program. As recently as last year, 34 years after Sputnik, the U.S.S.R. was basking in its reputation as the premier spacefaring nation in the world. Now political fragmentation and economic upheaval are raising questions about whether the successor states will be able to support a viable space program at all. In the U.S., even as officials debate the larger question of whether the West should provide economic aid to these states, a more specific debate is under way over the wisdom of striking commercial deals involving their...
...Designed to survive the unthinkable and completed in 1958, the year after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite, Mount Weather stands as a monument to a potential nightmare. Few in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission; defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps. Yet Mount Weather remains an integral part of the U.S.'s "Continuity of Government" plan, under which senior officials are to be whisked away in case...
...When confronted by a challenge, Americans have demonstrated that they can react and compete. The strong U.S. space industry is the result of the shock of Sputnik. Maybe what America needs is to feel threatened...
...kinds of threats we are seeing now are more gradual. What could be the economic equivalent of Sputnik...