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Originally Posted by Wally Fairway
Depends on how you define "front" - but sure the USSR and USA used the manned space program as a part of the development of their launch capabilities.....why do you think China is working on a manned space program?
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by front I mean, if we do this cool thing that the public will be interested in, then they won't mind so much that we are also piggybacking all this research money we are spending getting into space towards what we really want to do (build missiles to fight the Cold War). I'm not saying the government did anything wrong. I'm just saying that the space program had a way of capturing the public's attention and interest in a way that a straight up ICBM testing program never would have.
I thought China already had ICBMs?