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This theory was based on three ideas. The first was that both nations had enough weapons to destroy the other. The second was both nations could detect a first strike before it arrived. The last idea was both nations were able to respond quickly before they were hit by the first strike...
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The invention and perfection of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the beginning of MAD . The ICBM was a creation made possible by the Space Race. Back in October of 1942 and after more than a decade of experiments, Nazi Germany launched its first successful V-2 rocket...
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Space Advancements On May 5, 1961 Alan B. Shepard became the first U.S citizen into space. In 1962, John Glenn became the first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth. Project Gemini then started where two groups of astronauts met and connected...	1 / 272
Shuttle-Mir Program The program, sometimes called 'Phase One', was intended to allow the United States to learn from Russian experience into long-duration spaceflight and to foster a spirit of cooperation between the two nations and their respective space agencies, NASA and RKA, in preparation for further cooperative space ventures, specifically, 'Phase Two' of the joint project, the construction of the International Space Station...	5 / 1258
Docking With Mir Last year something amazing took place, but it wasn't in a laboratory. It wasn't under the ocean, and it wasn't on the land. It was in space. The docking of the United States's Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Space Station Mir was an important step towards international cooperation in space...	2 / 417
Canadarm 2 2 By: Daniel Zielinski Canadarm 2 The Canadarm 2 is a very important contribution from Canada, to the international Space station. Its complex design allows it to move through out the international space station and supply the station with useful tasks...	2 / 515
History of the MOL Space Station On May 1, 1960 the United States and Soviet Union entered into an even more tense situation than before when American pilot Gary Powers’ U-2 Spy Plane was shot down by a Soviet Union S-75 Divina surface to air missile...	6 / 1467
canadarm Although Canada has been involved with the space race since the beginning, nothing has made our national pride glow like watching the space shuttles and seeing the big letters CANADA written across the Canadarm...	4 / 860
Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle is the most amazing and complex machine ever built. Millions of people have been fascinated by it since it was introduced in 1972. Since I was old enough to realize what it was, the Space Shuttle has amazed me...	4 / 951