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GPS turns 30: A look at the revolutionary system operated by a Space Force unit in Colorado
When Russia shot down a Korean Airlines flight in 1983 with air-to-air missiles, the crew and everyone on board paid the ultimate price for straying into restricted airspace. The Russian military mistook the commercial flight with 269 people on board for a spy plane because it was 200 miles off course. The deaths prompted the Reagan…