No, because even handwavium "knows" that Shuttles Use Main Boosters To Get Out Of Earth's Atmosphere. It's part of what makes them Shuttles.
Excepting that russkie knockoff, of course. But the rules there are different because it's a russkie knockoff.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Excepting that russkie knockoff, of course. But the rules there are different because it's a russkie knockoff.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012