Why Are Maritime Ships Crucial to Space Operations?

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I can confirm for a fact that it’s happened at least once!

Apollo 11 Sextant to Navigate in Space

Those are both awesome videos. I actually have a piece of the Apollo 11 first stage booster; a “T-stiffener” from the oxidizer tank. One might scratch their chin as to how parts of a booster that was discarded and fell in the ocean far offshore could come to be in a DirtSailor’s possession? I’m glad you asked! The answer is failure to heed Notices to Mariners! One fine July day in 1969, a German freighter (I believe the MS Vegesack based on my digging) was blithely cruising along, minding its …