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To: evets

So they were planning on "catching" a falling capsul so high in the atmosphere it could be bordering space with a friggin helicopter???

Is John Kerry's campaign staff behind this plan?


50 posted on 09/08/2004 9:14:26 AM PDT by smith288 (Did you know John Kerry was a senator? What's his record, I wonder...)
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To: smith288

LOL;)


61 posted on 09/08/2004 9:17:21 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: smith288
The "helicopter" idea was better then the "10 guys holding a trampoline" idea they first thought of.
62 posted on 09/08/2004 9:17:23 AM PDT by Rubasoo
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To: smith288

This type of recovery was done a lot back in the 60's... our first spy satellites actually took photographs on film and the canister was dropped back to earth. The parachute on the cannister would be caught by an airplane trailing a long hook behind it.

Look up the Corona Project... fascinating stuff.


65 posted on 09/08/2004 9:18:19 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: smith288; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...

Well, this sucks.....................


101 posted on 09/08/2004 9:27:52 AM PDT by OXENinFLA (Since when did the 2nd Amendment have any thing to do with hunting?)
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Ya, this was our space craft, right ....


202 posted on 09/08/2004 9:55:43 AM PDT by Scythian
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