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Sevii
38 days ago
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First Air-Breathing Spacecraft
How is this a spacecraft? It can't ever leave orbit of a planet with an atmosphere.
Dylan16807
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Neither could the space shuttle but surely that's a spacecraft. Why would it have to
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jojobas
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Most spacecraft we know of never left the Earth orbit anyway.
dvrj101
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft#Crewed_and_uncrewed...
phire
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It spends it's entire mission above the Kármán line (100km), so it is legitimately in space, and is therefore a spacecraft, like all other satellites.
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