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Space travel engineering: Retiring the fiery phallic symbol someday? - C C - Jul 15, 2018
Do We Really Need Rockets to Go to Space?: "It’s nice to know that engineers are working on new and better ways to access space. Rockets have made space exploration possible, but there are a range of technologies we can use to bring down the launch costs and open up whole new vistas of space exploration and colonization."
Types of non-rocket spacelaunch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
StarTram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram
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RE: Space travel engineering: Retiring the fiery phallic symbol someday? - Syne - Jul 16, 2018
Anyone whose first thought about rocketry is a phallic symbol may have an unhealthy preoccupation.