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Originally Posted by Texpat These sort of strategic/tactical games are played at every level, between every nation, every day. | No question about it. It's all about tit for tat. Russia cannot be criticized for objecting to missile systems on it's borders and the US cannot be for criticizing bombers in Cuba. Both will react to the other to maintain a strategic military balance. Neither side will take drastic measures to stop the other. |
It's about probing for weaknesses. When the Soviets didn't bother with a manned mission into space with one of these they built.
You knew they were out of gas.
It had completed only one (unmanned) spaceflight in 1988 before the shuttle program was cancelled in 1993. It was damaged by a hangar collapse in 2002.