SKIP CONTENT ABOUT US CONTACT GUIDELINES ADVERTISING MAGAZINE BLOGS TOPICS REGIONS FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS ROUNDTABLE SIGN IN REGISTER ISSUE OUT NOW LOG IN SEARCH THE BUZZ SAD STORY OF SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM KYLE INTENSE RIVALRY THE UNITED STATES THE SOVIET UNION PUSHED TWO COUNTRIES EARTH THE SOLAR SYSTEM GOOD IDEAS PRESTIGE FOR WASHINGTON COPIED THE SPACE RACE NONE THE SOVIET SPACE THE AMERICAN CREATE SPACECRAFT INEXPENSIVE REUSABLE CONNECTOR LOW EARTH ORBIT THE SHUTTLE CARRYING MILITARY CIVILIAN PAYLOADS ACTING LABORATORY FOR SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS CREWS VISITORS ORBITING NATURE SPACESHIPS DOZENS MISSIONS PRIDE EXAMPLE AMERICAN SOFT POWER TEMPTATION SHUTTLE SYSTEM WORK SPACEPLANE MOSCOW DIRECT REASON BUILD SPACE PLANE SALYUT MIR SPACE STATION BENEFIT TRANSPORT SYSTEM COUNTRYS OUTPOSTS WASHINGTON TINKERING REUSABLE SPACECRAFT DESIGNS AMERICAS THE SPACE PROJECT SUCCESS THE APOLLO MOON PROGRAM DIDNT IMMEDIATELY EMBARK SHUTTLE PROGRAM TECHNICAL THE AMERICANS ALREADY PROTOTYPE ENTERPRISE FULLY OPERATIONAL CONFIDENCE AUTHORIZED BURAN BURAN PROGRAM ACTUALLY DEVELOP PLANE CARRY ENERGIA ROCKET NPO ENERGIA FUNCTION HEAVY LIFTER TWO STAGE FIRST STAGE CONSISTING OF BOOSTER ROCKETS CORE STAGE THE ROCKET OVERALL LIFT AMAZING TONS WAS TO EXPERIMENTAL LASER WEAPON THE LAUNCH ITSELF WRONG DIRECTION THE PACIFIC ENGINEERS EXTERNALLY DIMENSIONS DELTA WING NOSE ORBITAL THE NOSE BLUEPRINTS THE KGB SCIENTISTS KEY DIFFERENCE SPACE SHUTTLE THREE SPACE ENGINES THRUST LIFTOFF COMBINATION THESE THREE PAIR SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS ON THE OTHER HAND TO DO THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES ORBIT DIFFERENCE CRAFT FLOWN ASTRONAUT PILOT AUTOPILOT LAUNCH SCHEDULED TEST FLIGHT LAUNCH PAD GANTRY FAILED RETRACT CAUSING COMPUTER CANCEL ATTEMPT NOVEMBER 15 BRIEF BACK IN JUDGED THE COLD WAR SUFFERED BEGUN ECONOMIC NEVER SURVIVE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR BAIKONUR COSMODROME HANGAR HOUSING ZHUKOVSKY AIR BASE ONCE INVOLVED HARD WORK INDIVIDUALS SO MUCH FOOTNOTE LAST SHOW FULL PAGE VIEW DISCUSSION THREAD MORE STORIES HOW TO WIN AFGHANISTAN SHOULD POLITICAL APPROACH DANA ROHRABACHER DONALD TRUMP DANGEROUS SOUTH CHINA SEA GREATER RISKS LOOM THE HORIZON TRUMP MEDIA WAR ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESIDENTS THE PRESS TRADITION DANIEL MCCARTHY FACE CORNUCOPIA GLOBAL THREATS TABLE OF CONTENTS DIGITAL EDITION NEWSLETTER POPULAR AIR FORCE NEEDS UPGRADE FAST LETHAL ARMED MISSILE NATO FEAR COMING SOON AIRCRAFT CARRIER ARMS RACE SECRET THE BALTICS CRUSH SOLDIERS FALLING THE SKY SMART SNEAKY GETTING STRONGER SUPER MISSILE DOMINATE THE LAND THE FUTURE THE REAL THUCYDIDES TRAP RED AND BLUE AMERICA GO TO ACCESS TWITTER FACEBOOK YOUTUBE RSS FEED PRESS ROOM JOBS INTERNSHIPS HOME MAGAZINE SECURITY SOCIETY ECONOMICS POLITICS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AFRICA ASIA EURASIA EUROPE MIDDLE EAST OCEANIA THE NATIONAL INTEREST ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRIVACY POLICY TERMS CONDITIONS