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Blast-off! Boat free launch at last. Orion heads for space

Charles 9

Re: Why

Routine maintenance, mostly. Kinda hard to service a ship when it's out at sea, for example. Similarly, a spacecraft is difficult to maintain while it's out in space. A lot of the stuff you need to do a good job is stuck on Earth.

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