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The life of two Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck indefinitely in space (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You don't need a three stage Apollo rocket that can lift 150t to LEO for your ICBMs.

That area of launch ability was functionally complete in 1960 with Redstone and possibly a bit of showing off in the guidance phase with Gemini.