Militarization of outer Space. The
early space expeditions and quest to land on the moon were part of a
twofold strategic plan.
One was a plan of conquest, of global dominance.
The other, an escape plan which took seriously
the imminent perils of
the Nuclear Age—potential global annihilation. The astronauts
were the first step in determining the feasibility of rocketing a select
group of humans to another planet to seed it with humanity if a global
nuclear war threatened the annihilation of the human species.
So the
picture was taken to determine how to militarized Starship Earth.
