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Article: NASA LOOKS TO THE EAST AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES OF SOVIET CAPABILITIES AND PROJECT APOLLO.(history of the space race)
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- Air Power History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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From the point that the Sputnik crisis began in October 1957, the United States' efforts in space were intrinsically tied to the efforts of their rocketry and space flight counterparts in the Soviet Union.[1] The degree to which the American program used reconnaissance and intelligence information to help shape its efforts, however, has been understudied and unappreciated. The recently declassified intelligence estimates of Soviet capabilities for space flight, as well as other sources of information about the Soviet program, helped to focus throughout the 1960s the structure, pace, and direction of Project Apollo.
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