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Good afternoon! It's easy, today, to think of the space programs as normal, but not so long ago, piercing the heavens atop a repurposed nuclear bomb delivery system was the thrilling, risky stuff of science fiction. When human exploration of space was just beginning astronauts, scientists and engineers used the most advanced - and destructive - weapons systems around to push the boundaries of where humans could go. | Science | Forecast

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