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As Michel Van has said, following the USSR's Vostok 1/Yuri Gagarin, the US felt the intense need to have something that they could beat the Soviets with. The decision amongst many was that a Space Station Strategy would be to small and near-term and something they could be defeated in by their...

Sergei Khrushchev working in OKB-1 under Sergei Korolyov? That's going to have some serious implications, both good and bad.

Now they're really starting to find the Extrasolar Planets that reside "nearby". IIRC 51 Pagasi b was discovered since it's mass and closeness to it's parent star meant said parent star was shaking hard when they checked via the radial velocity method. In any case, nice to see how things...

Unmanned would be the easier & cheaper option, and make might Sample Return Politically Possible. Manned is the Really Big Prize, and difficult even under the best conditions. As for how to do it? Good question. I suppose Detente lasting longer than it did is one way, but using a...