It may not have not been a good idea: the Dyna-Soar, Blue Gemini, and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory were all projects abandoned by the US Air Force for lack of a clear goal. The Soviet Union ...

After the fall of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers ... announced plans to build the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a military ...

Instead of orbiting the Earth ... Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how ...