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Fifty-two years ago, as Soviet cosmonauts and us astronauts were first venturing into space, another space program was also taking off—in Lebanon. Yes, in the early 1960’s, the country of 1.8 million people, one-quarter the size of Switzerland, was launching research rockets that reached altitudes high enough to get the attention of the Cold War superpowers.