Astro Spies
Millions remember the countdowns, launches, splashdowns and parades as the US raced the Soviet Union to the moon in the 1960s. Few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions and even fewer know what became of the military astronauts they trained. Highly classified for decades, these top-secret missions might easily have triggered World War III, in space.
For the first time ever, both Soviet and US pilots, talk about these highly classified missions and the spacecraft they involved. With shuttle destroying cannons on ships designed for space warfare, a test-fire shot could be the first on a battlefield of the future.