[TexasCajun]

The point being, we never helped USSR with its Sputnik satellite or rocket technology.

This was during my elementary school days when they taught to duck & cover under our school desk in the event of a nuclear attack by the USSR.

It wasn't until the end of the space shuttle program that we had to thumb a ride to the space station.

[American Constitutionalist]

Yes indeed, I remember those drills in school.

They seemed to stop in the early 70s.