Let's not forget the main reason the Space Shuttle was such a shitshow was the design requirement that it launch into a single polar orbit to snatch a satellite, and land back where it started. Single-orbit anything is the great destroyer of budgets. https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm …
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I realize nothing I tweet can stop a multi-hundred-billion dollar program to make sure we can wage global thermonuclear war from a variety of geographic directions, but it saves me the cost of a stamp to write my congresswoman.
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