USE A PROTECTIVE SHIELD
In the days of sensitive or easily breakable payloads, we used a small "protective shell" to guard the payload, something that was jettisoned after leaving the atmosphere. Why can't NASA, in an age of super strong but extremely thin and very lightweight (read low-mass) materials, devise a protective...
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