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An Apollo era proposal to catch and reuse the Saturn S-V stage (lemmy.world)
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Black and white rendering of a large helicopter carrying a rocket stage back from the mission

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[–] mercano 3 points 1 year ago

While it wasn’t widely know at the time, we were already doing mid-air retrievals of the Corona spy satellites’ film bucket reentry capsules. This would just be scaling the concept up… way up.