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		moped on May 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth Though, if the angle of re-entry is too shallow, it would skip off the atmosphere (like a rock would across water).

drbawb on May 31, 2012 [–]

And if Earth is this basketball, and the Odyssey CM is this baseball, they have to hit a re-entry interface no thicker than this piece of computer paper.

(At least that's what Apollo 13 [the movie] said.)

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