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Frontline Episode 1.11 Space - The Race for High Ground
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Frontline Episode 1.11 Space - The Race for High Ground

Episode Premiere
April 11, 1983
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
GBH
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/
Episode Premiere
April 11, 1983
Genre
Documentary
Period
1983 -
Production Co
GBH
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/
Main Cast
  • Will Lyman

Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as 'high ground,' the battle area to control.