Space - The Race for High Ground Frontline : Season 1 Episode 11
Not Rated PBS 1h 00m
Aired: April 11th, 1983 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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.
