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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was manufactured by the Americans, put into space by the Americans, controlled by the Americans until they handed over control to the RAF, and was stated in the article to be "dual control". It was clearly the Americans.

Why is an event that happened in the 1970s getting an article now?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Because space history and space archaeology is super cool :-D