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Graham · 20-10-2005, 20:11

So if all this technology exists, exactly *why* did the Americans and Russians spend all those billions of dollars on rockets?

*Why* do we have to send research spacecraft on gravitationally assisted trajectories to other planets/ comets etc?

And *why* have none of these craft ever been spotted by the tens of thousands of amateur astronomers out there who are looking and photographing the moon, the planets and the stars *every night*???

20-10-2005, 20:11	#8
Graham Inactive Join Date: May 2005 Age: 61 Posts: 3,170	Re: The Moon So if all this technology exists, exactly why did the Americans and Russians spend all those billions of dollars on rockets? Why do we have to send research spacecraft on gravitationally assisted trajectories to other planets/ comets etc? And why have none of these craft ever been spotted by the tens of thousands of amateur astronomers out there who are looking and photographing the moon, the planets and the stars every night???