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Although it's kind of wierd since it's a military classification, I had figure KSP as a civilisan space program

Not weird actually... If you do some reading you will see that the space program in real life started out in the military entirely (Heck, the first US astronaut rode an ICBM with the warhead replaced with a crew capsule! As did the first US orbital astronaut! (The capsule was lighter than the warhead it normally used so it had enough delta-V to get it into orbit! And AFAIK the russians (Who got the first human into orbit during the USSR days) used a purpose-built rocket))

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Not weird actually... If you do some reading you will see that the space program in real life started out in the military entirely (Heck, the first US astronaut rode an ICBM with the warhead replaced with a crew capsule! As did the first orbital astronaut! (The capsule was lighter than the warhead it normally used so it had enough delta-V to get it into orbit!))

No but you can only be "Killed in action" if you die due to hostile attacks. Non-hostile events cannot cause KIA by definition.

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No but you can only be "Killed in action" if you die due to hostile attacks. Non-hostile events cannot cause KIA by definition.

Action generally refers to the soldier or personnel's line of duty, so being killed during flight testing would be classified as KIA.

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Not weird actually... If you do some reading you will see that the space program in real life started out in the military entirely (Heck, the first US astronaut rode an ICBM with the warhead replaced with a crew capsule! As did the first US orbital astronaut! (The capsule was lighter than the warhead it normally used so it had enough delta-V to get it into orbit! And AFAIK the russians (Who got the first human into orbit during the USSR days) used a purpose-built rocket))

Both used modified ICBMs, the Soviets just had the advantage that their nukes weighed a whole lot more than their US equivalents, so they had the incentive to develop bigger rockets from the start.

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Both used modified ICBMs, the Soviets just had the advantage that their nukes weighed a whole lot more than their US equivalents, so they had the incentive to develop bigger rockets from the start.

Soviet nuclear warheads didn't weight more, but the distance they had to cover from USSR to US territory was a very great one, counted in thousands of kilometres. The Americans had Air Force bases all around soviet territory, and their bombs mainly would've been carried and delivered by plane.

But the fact remains, yeah: both the R7 Semiorka and the Atlas rockets are modified ICBMs.

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Soviet nuclear warheads didn't weight more, but the distance they had to cover from USSR to US territory was a very great one, counted in thousands of kilometres. The Americans had Air Force bases all around soviet territory, and their bombs mainly would've been carried and delivered by plane.

But the fact remains, yeah: both the R7 Semiorka and the Atlas rockets are modified ICBMs.

The Redstone (Used for the test flights of the Mercury project) was also that!
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As were the first French rockets, derivated from German missiles; EOLE, Berenice; Veronique, Vesta the "precious gems" (Agathe, Topaze, Emeraude, Rubis, Saphir, and Diamand). All were part of a military program part of the "strike force"; though they never officially carried any weapon, but scientific experiences.

Notable success were the first French/European lauch of living beings in 1961 (Hector the rat being the first one), and the first French satellite, Asterix, in 1965 (making France the third country able to put satellites in orbit). The programs were halted in the 70's when the Europa project became the Ariane project.

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