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Launching a spacecraft is hard, but U.S. and Soviet disasters show that getting safely back to Earth is even harder; engineers face huge challenges for a safe splashdown.
Launching a spacecraft is hard, but U.S. and Soviet disasters show that getting safely back to Earth is even harder; engineers face huge challenges for a safe splashdown.
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