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To: RayChuang88
SpaceX has already demonstrated it CAN fly an actual spacecraft to the ISS and return safely. .....

And this achievement should excite us why?

12 posted on 08/26/2012 11:19:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If this wasn’t sarcasm, then I challenge you to design a vehicle that accelerates from 0 to 18000mph, over 200 miles, which also has to get to the exact correct angle relative to the earths surface to achieve orbit, and neither crash and burn back to earth nor fly off to infinity. Then approach a teeny tiny dot at an exact altitude and location and velocity, and link up with it. Then leave that dot, and enter the atmosphere at an exact time, at an exact angle, so you neither bounce off it, and fly into infinity, not burn to a cinder. And then after not burning up, land at an exact spot, while the planet is moving and rotating. Finally slowing from 18000mph to 0


39 posted on 08/26/2012 3:46:21 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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