Fuel sent up to space, to be retrieved by returning spacecraft so that any returning spacecraft can slow itself down to a non-dangerous pace.

Hydrogen parcels come to mind since most of the way they will travel by floating upwards.
-- pashute, Dec 10 2016

'This is the Captain, no need to worry. We are just passing through the Mentos belt. Some of which, we will pick up on the way'
-- wjt, Dec 10 2016


end of era for failing nasa reentry shuttles.
-- pashute, Dec 21 2016



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