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1. Infected Moomin (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:41 JST Infected Moomin
   USA landed on the Moon in 1969, so we beat the USSR at landing on a foreign celestial body, but Venera 7 was the first landing on another planet.
   • Infected Moomin (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:33 JST Infected Moomin

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     @cell @icedquinn @nerdman https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasa-gets-military-spy-telescopes-for-astronomy/2012/06/04/gJQAsT6UDV_story.htmlThe DoD gave two "better than Hubble" unused spy satellites to NASA because, presumably, they have better equipment somewhere already in use.
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   • cell (cell@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:34 JST cell

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     @icedquinn @Moon @nerdman one open secret is that the Hubble Space Telescope is basically a KH-11 spy satellite but pointed towards space instead of the Earthand the KH-11 is 1970s spy satellite technology; nowadays when civilians have easy access to satellite imagery who knows what the military has in their arsenal!
   • Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:35 JST Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake:

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     @Moon @cell @nerdman i think most people still don’t know the military runs its own space program.

   • Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:36 JST Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake:

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     @Moon @cell @nerdman or they just didn't tell anyone :blobcatwhistle2:
   • Infected Moomin (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:37 JST Infected Moomin

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     @cell @icedquinn @nerdman One of my professors told me that the Army had a more sophisticated space program than the civilian space program and was administratively prevented from launching satellites, until the Soviets launched Sputnik and the USA was embarrassed.
   • Infected Moomin (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:38 JST Infected Moomin

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     • Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake:
     @icedquinn @nerdman I don't know if this applied to the space program but anything of military value was developed compartmentalized so that no one person understood the whole project and could stealth it away to the USA.
   • cell (cell@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:38 JST cell

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     @Moon @icedquinn @nerdman It was quite interesting how each branch of the US Military had their own separate rocketry programs.
   • Moron (nerdman@kiwifarms.cc)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:40 JST Moron

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     @Moon I think that's because Venus atmosphere is so thick. Soviets seem to have had a problem making good auto-landing stuff. Everything they tried to land seemed to crash instead.
   • Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:55:40 JST Iced Quinn :blobcatverifiedfake:

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     @nerdman USSR science was hampered by the censorship culture. They were only allowed free thinking in assigned silos and those silos were limited in how they could interact (mostly through having to import/export parts through GOST.)So they couldn't order prototype parts for a one-off mission, they had to order computing units (which were made by a computing silo, standardized in GOST, then they could import the standard module.)@Moon
   • バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;; (shmibs@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 23:56:12 JST バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;

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     @Moon @cell @icedquinn @nerdman james webb finally soon though