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While space exploration may seem uncalculated amidst all the explosions and mess-ups, in reality, the balance of velocity and gravity is crucial to a successful mission. Spacecraft magically go up and never come down for days, weeks, months, or even years. How does this happen? Why do some spacecraft go to space longer than others?

The United States space program has never been more motivated than after Apollo 11. Riding off the momentum, the then president, Richard Nixon, established a Space Task Group report to plot a course for where the American space program would head in the next few decades.