LOL!!! 
Posted on 08/15/2013 2:45:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOL!!!
Short for “retrograde”. Used for slowing down and steering.
i understand what it means, and i understand maneuvering thrusters, but why would it need to "slow down"???
I had to laugh, just the other day, when my 9 year old son very emphatically told me that North Korea fails at everything. I don’t know where he heard this or came up with it, but it was out of the blue and he said it so matter of factly.
Experts also say that Obamacare cannot fly but NBC Snooze ignores those critics.
Rivets? Rivets? It’s a piece of culvert pipe. And white wall tires-—gotta be the same ones the Russians used back in the 1960’s.
ICBMs don’t obtain a normal space orbit, they use retro-rockets to “deorbit” to reach their target.
Meaning, they go into space but don’t orbit like a satellite, they come back down. You would have to use all kinds of thrusters to pinpoint where you wanted it to come down at.
i thought the whole point of being a ballistic missile was it went up and then came down in a ballistic arc... i'm no rocket scientist, but i never thought you needed retro rockets to slow one down i still learn something new everyday, thx
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