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To: cripplecreek

Exactly! Many fail to remember our ramp up to space exploration (I only read about it) but the hundreds of lives lost in first breaking the sound barrier the hundreds of test rockets wasted in perfecting the right calculations...this is exactly akin to that ...why? Because commercially supplied space exploration is in its infancy and will go through its bumps and bruises before it smoothes out


62 posted on 10/28/2014 4:30:46 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Jarhead9297

Its amazing we haven’t lost anyone in space yet. Apparently the astronaut who had the coolant leak came pretty close to drowning a while back.

Guys with slide rules, ingenuity, and buzzcuts saved the Apollo 13 crew against astounding odds.


74 posted on 10/28/2014 4:38:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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