Space prospects: agenda for a hundred years

... supremacy in space exploration. The second one was, on the basis of lunar programs, to work out modifications of a space weapon for the neutralization of the opponent’s nuclear missile potential. The third one was to create a technological reserve for future space programs. It was during the moon race that Moscow developed the manned Soyuz spacecraft and Washington the Apollo Lunar Module that later became the basis for the system of Space Shuttle manned missions. Those were the main achievements of the space ...