Space: The Race for High Ground

April 11, 1983

Season 1983: Episode 11

Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as ‘high ground,’ the battle area to control.

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