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Re: [GMCnet] Way off topic: Largest rocket to ever be launched. [message #328913 is a reply to message #328911] Wed, 07 February 2018 07:17 Go to previous message
Ronald Pottol is currently offline  Ronald Pottol   United States
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It's a first flight, they always have dummy payloads. It also demonstrated
going through the Van Allen belts, and doing a second burn on the motor,
which is of interest to the Air Force. So, some showmanship in service of
testing and demonstrating a number of capacities.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:08 AM, Bruce Hislop wrote:

> Hurling a Tesla car into space because he can? Doesn't that pretty much
> negate any reduction in pollution emission's that all electric cars have
> saved to this point in time?
> I don't get it.
> --
> Bruce Hislop
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> My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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