Thread: can we give up on NASA yet?
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:04 AM
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Ummm....correct me if I am wrong, but except for a very small period in the late 1960s (present included), the Russian space program has always been way more advanced than ours. Even when we were launching the Apollo missions to the moon, we were still landing in a capsule in the ocean with parachutes, while the Russians always landed on the ground a la the space shuttle.
Yeah - their capsule piled into the ground. Sounds WAAYYYY better.

It wasn't like it had landing gear...

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Anything to denegrate the U.S., and pump up the workers' paradise.
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You have to get over the whole 9/11 thing buddy.
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