There was a time, not too long ago, when some of the world's brilliant rocket scientists didn't think of space as something to conquer, nor monetize, nor explore -- but as a means to make war. In the Cold War of the 1960s, they eyed outer space as a potential theater of conflict, where human-piloted space vessels would engage in gravity-free dogfights and fire missiles. The ambitions were unrealistic. But they did nonetheless give birth to a Soviet anti-satellite weaponry program simply called Istrebitel Sputnikov - the "satellite killer."
Washington Post: A mysterious Russian space object could be the return of the ‘satellite killer’
Having a break in the spring cleaning of the area students sing and dance around a Soviet-era street decoration with a portrait of Lenin displayed in an open air museum in Moscow on April 9.
