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Old 01-17-2017, 04:26 AM  
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Relatively simple to get into orbit ? Fucking nonsense.

Getting in and out of the Earths atmosphere and gravitational pull is the difficult bit.

Take off and re entry is what takes the real engineering and technological difficulty.

Sailing across the empty bit in between is the easy bit.

Idiot.

Relatively simple compared to sending a man to the moon and bringing them back alive, yes, that's why the Russians put a man in space in 1961, yet even with exponential technology improvements, over 50 years later no one has been able to send a man to the moon
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