David Rosenthal: prediction

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…Gemini and Apollo. Mercury, Kennedy, putting a man on the moon, all that amazing stuff, which for sure happened and was happening. All of that was basic science research. Nobody working on those programs, public observing it, it would be crazy to think there were going to be actual applications in space anytime soon. There's no infrastructure. These are science missions, this is research. Even Sputnik on the Russian side, Sputnik was a research vessel. It was the size of a bowling ball or I think it was a little bigger, but it was very, very simple. It was a long, long, long, long time before you went from those initial science missions to applications in space, or so everybody thought. Because in parallel, there was a secret US space program being run by Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation out of Silicon Valley. In the same timeframe as the initial NASA missions, the initial Mercury (I think) were the first missions, basically concurrently with that, they got a fully operational observational spy satellite system up into space and functioning at the same time. How did we launch them with nobody… Lay it out.…

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