On social media, the “Ghost of Kyiv” was a military hero, an ace fighter pilot hailed for supposedly shooting down multiple Russian planes. The tales began just days into the war and circulated for months, bolstered by official Ukrainian accounts.
lol USA created NASA precisely because their garbage for profit companies didn’t see space exploration as profitable and so USA was falling ridiculously behind technologically from USSR.
It is of great urgency and importance to our country both from consideration of our prestige as a nation as well as military necessity that this challenge [Sputnik] be met by an energetic program of research and development for the conquest of space… It is accordingly proposed that the scientific research be the responsibility of a national civilian agency… NACA is capable, by rapid extension and expansion of its effort, of providing leadership in space technology.
Basically if it wasn’t for USSR United States would’ve never bothered with space exploration because it was more profitable for private companies to spend their resources on coming up with new and exciting ways to exploit their workers.
lol USA created NASA precisely because their garbage for profit companies didn’t see space exploration as profitable and so USA was falling ridiculously behind technologically from USSR.
Basically if it wasn’t for USSR United States would’ve never bothered with space exploration because it was more profitable for private companies to spend their resources on coming up with new and exciting ways to exploit their workers.