Originally Posted by
pgwenthold
I saw two space shuttle launches in my life. Both of them took off, I saw them go up, up up and then they landed many days later.
I want to know, if they didn't go off into space, where the hell did they go?
And if the complaint is that these were just low-earth orbit, then what about the Apollo missions? These guys were gone for days and days after take off before landing in ocean. Where were they if not in space?
They couldn't have been flying around in the atmosphere. If the physics of rockets in space, imagine the engineering to keep a craft floating around the atmosphere for 10 days?
Rockets flying in space is a far simpler explanation than any alternative.
If you think about it, by the time those Apollo guys made it to space there was very little rocket still with them. Most of the rocket was indeed in the ocean as Gingervytes has claimed. OMG! Maybe Gingervytes is right!