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Old 05-04-2008, 10:46 AM
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Remember that line - but Russian's used a pencil - apparently this was significantly dangerous at the time - pencils leave graphite dust which provides a combustible surface catalyst in high oxygen environments. So it inverts the thinking that just maybe NASA really did get this right whilst the Russians lucked in.
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