The meme doesn’t fit though, does it? This makes it seem like you can get fuel, engines and nukes into space and could just get people into space by replacing nuclear warheads with people. Not by using nuclear warheads.
Doesn’t fit the meme, but it somewhat fits the historical context of the cold war space race: send humans to space so the other side is scared of you replacing them with nukes.
The meme doesn’t fit though, does it? This makes it seem like you can get fuel, engines and nukes into space and could just get people into space by replacing nuclear warheads with people. Not by using nuclear warheads.
The US launched people on repurposed ICBMs
Doesn’t fit the meme, but it somewhat fits the historical context of the cold war space race: send humans to space so the other side is scared of you replacing them with nukes.