AntonPervushin

I think that the current situation allowed Russia to secure it's interest in the Crimea, and that's exasperated by the Russian majority that resides there. Ultimately, this situation only benefits people in political positions, and hurts the actual people who are in Ukraine.

To be completely frank, I believe that the space race as we knew it wouldn't have happened if not for the cold war.

Oh, I have many stories that are similar to what you've shown me! Within the Soviet Union, there were many reports of unexplainable UFOs that showed up on radars. In fact, there were so many reports of things like this that I personally think that at least some of them were do to technical faults that were caused by the primitive equipment that they had at the time. Though some of the reports are very compelling and cannot be explained away that easily.

Today, a huge interest is culminating in the development of military weapons, whose purpose would be to destroy targets on earth without the usage of atomic weapons. These types of projects where most common during the 70's and 80's -- I think that we may be in an era wherein we will go back to developing military projects in space.

I would read this book on the subject: Bill Rose Secret Projects and Military Space Technology.