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After Sputnik’s successful launch in 1957 and American failure to launch their own first artificial satellite into space a few weeks later, the Soviet delegate to the UN offered the US representative aid “under the Soviet program of technical assistance to backwards nations"

Aerosmith's Joe Perry use to keep a roadie by the side of the stage instructed to give him a toot of cocaine through a straw whenever he wandered over pretending to need technical assistance

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1. When Project Vanguard launch failure ocurred in the wake of sputnik crisis then in the United Nations, the Russian delegate offered the US. representative aid "under the Soviet program of technical assistance to backwards nations."

2. Civilian vehicles modified for war are called "technicals" because the Somali militias who used them were hired as bodyguards for non-government organizations, who listed their pay in accounts as "technical assistance grants."

3. Before founding WikiLeaks, Julian Assange provided technical assistance to the Victoria Police child exploitation unit and assisted in prosecutions

4. According to JFK, who initiated the creation of the Peace Corps, the Peace Corps were initially intended to be "young college graduates [who] would find a full life in bringing technical advice and assistance to the underprivileged and backward Middle East..."

5. The first commercial lunar operations technically happened in 1998: a communications satellite, mistakenly launched into an unusable orbit without enough fuel to correct it directly, was salvaged by instead flying by the moon for a gravity assist

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