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A comment on Lunik: The CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021). Parent comment

Re:Lunik: The CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satelli... by comeonbro on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:53AM (#37334705)
The entire original design for the Space Transportation System was fatally compromised by the requirement it be able to do that mission, setting back human spaceflight 40 years, and then it never did it.
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Re:Lunik: The CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satelli... by Dan_Sylveste on Thursday August 31, 2023 @07:55AM (#37335784)
> then it never did it

Who knows what would be floating around our little world right now if that capacity to grab stuff out of orbit didn't exist, hmm?

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