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Old April 16, 2010, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Alien
When it comes to space, countries don't normally compete too much. Even during cold war era, while Americans and Russians had missiles pointed at each other, their astronaut would work and live together up there.
forgot all about the 'space race', 'missile gap' and the 'race to the moon' ?

what you say happened mostly after the break up of the soviet union. other than one docking exercise in 70's the two countries didn't cooperate much in space.
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