Doesn't work with spacecraft of this size, weight, and fragility - they already had to make the largest heatsheild ever made, to also do the airbag case would have more than doubled the vehicle size.

This isn't my or your mom, these are the moms for 3 year olds - the oldest people in the survey are 35 (youngest are 18).

For that matter, the tank that fell off is ment to be disposable. They attache to bomb mounts, and when empty on a mission, they can be dropped to lighten the plane. Not that they are normally disposed of, usually just in combat ops, or when they need really long range.

Taken in Nov 1982. Nice try though. [mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov]

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A picture I took during my honeymoon.

The university where I work (+20,000 students) has been without email all day. We switched to Google about a year ago.

Hey, the bubble on the map is right over where I work (Oakland University). What a small world.

You article is in definitive term ('he will have to'). This is actually a 'he may want to'. It's not for security reasons (while that can play a role, that is not the main reason - and he can insist on having it over security objections). The reason why he may not want to is that all of his communications on it would…