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Just think how much money this will save, it opens up big possibilities for the space agencies.

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Great, now they can take off and land just the way we all imagined Rockets should take off and land.

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I hope the Rocket has a Firewall, and antivirus, who knows what infections we may adopt?

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None of that messing about with bits falling off the higher you get when Flash Gordon was in command, he just got in started her up and off he went in his sleek shining Rocket, then he was back home on Earth before supper time, no ships having to put to sea to retrieve the capsule, so primitive when you think of it.
Just look at the horrible ugly looking things they call spaceships in the films today, floating junkyards and dirt collectors yuk, give us back our smooth slinky spaceships now.

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Remember Dan Dare had one that he called Anastasia after Digby's great aunt.
http://www.dandare.org/dan/anastasia/anastasia.htm

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Ah well do I remember Dan Dare on the Radio, Pilot of the future, happy memories of childhood.

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and he could parachute from his rocket ship whilst looking immaculate, and without a hair out of place. No need for silly helmets in the good old days

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If this was April 1st I would have taken it as an elaborate hoax as it is so odd. To think they can keep such a shaped object stable enough to land on it's end in our atmosphere and with our gravity. Incredible.