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So the takeaway is that spending funds on an arms race is pretty unpopular, but it turns out that people think cool shit is cool and worth it?

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The takeaway is that the Space Race was just another front of the Cold War and the Military Industrial Complex got a blank check so long as they could win it. The fact it also captivated peoples' imaginations was a nice side effect.

And they blew up a rocket with people in it [1] in the process, which made everyone there rethink the whole thing from a project planning and design perspective, that it became a blueprint[2] of how to do a successful project

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 [2]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197200...

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