THE SCRAMBLE FOR SPACE

THE SCRAMBLE FOR SPACE

Walter A. McDougall

A thumbnail definition of a great power between the two world wars might have been: "A nation that builds its own air- planes." The updated version would be: "A nation that launches its own spacecraft." While the United States and the Soviet Union are still the Big Two, and remain the only nations capable of orbiting satellites at will, the diffusion of space technology has already begun.
Leaving aside the United States and the Soviet Union, five nations (France, Britain,...

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