WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

Saturday Night Live finally returned Saturday night, and opened with the  Trump ( Alex Baldwin ) versus Biden ( Jim Carrey ) debate .  It was a hoot! My Monday postings in the past provided reviews of two films I saw over the weekend.  As I've stopped going to movie theaters, here are two productions dealing with the USA versus USSR space race from Prime and Netflix.  First, though, I'll start with a  historical perspective so you can appreciate when these events occurred: Salyut ( salute or fireworks--changed from Zarya for dawn because China had a program called dawn ) program: 1971-1986--Salyut 1-7 Salyut 1 became the first crewed space station, and there were 9 in all 71 successes and  10 failures, with 4 cosmonauts lost in space Soyuz:  the spacecraft that took the cosmonauts to Salyut flew 786 missions, with only 3 failures ten variants nothing was reusable While supposedly a civilian operation, like NASA, much of the earlier Salyut missions were...