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RE: 60 year anniversary of Sputnik today! - Some reflections from inside the European Space Agency
It makes you wonder if we would even be in space if not for the cold war.
It makes you wonder if we would even be in space if not for the cold war.
I think we would be. There are so many advantages provided by the space-based infrastructures in telecommunications, navigation and earth observation that there would be a business for it eventually. But the priorities of agencies would be much different.
I think the cold war pushed the space industry forward, making technological leaps that otherwise would have happened at a much slower pace. I agree with fredrikaa, business based side would still have happened, telecommunications etc. However exploration of other planets and the moon may have not happened.