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...so, among other things, the designs don't match the numbers, the numbers were sloppy first-draft versions anyway, and they spend a lot of mass on design approaches that were found to simply not work.
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No, actually, I don't think that political will was all that was lacking, and find the suggestion insulting to those who did the work to achieve what we did get.
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It should also be noted that a rocket designed very much like the Von Braun Colliers design was in fact built and flew:
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It.. didn't work out all that well. So yeah, the reason this didn't get off the ground wasn't simply a lack of Green Lanterning on anybody's part.
I'm just mad that we didn't KEEP going once we got there, that's all.-Logan
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