I was recently reading an article about the 1960’s and the space race between America and the then Soviet Union, latterly the Russian Federation. For those of a younger age group, the US and the USSR were the two super-powers that emerged after World War 2. They then engaged in a competition to build-up an arsenal of nuclear and other weapons which could have destroyed our world many times over. Back then, they were also engaged in another competition – the space race. Ever s