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AWR
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: State of Flux
 
2011-11-28, 12:50

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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray View Post
Seeing how often these missions go kaput renews my respect for people willing to strap themselves to these vehicles and hurl themselves into orbit.

I saw this photo on the BBC website, and thought it was so good that I looked up the photographer and found him on Flickr. So incongruous to see the scorched capsule sitting in a frozen field like that!
No doubt!

Scraping guys off the walls of that scorched capsule, in miraculous shape it seems, is quite a feat.
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