It was a fat bull - for the launch and ascent phase, not that much aerodynamics were needed anyway, it was just all engines thrusting at full capacity as the atmosphere gets thinner. The structural load

The real hard and dangerous part was the atmospheric reentry, because the heat tile system was a complicated and quite fragile design with multiple SS failures owed to it. The SS also only had one go at landing, because it was just coming down like a gliding rock with one try at making the perfect landing, there was no go around option.

... unless it's something like a gigantic helium balloon.  Those too will EVENTUALLY come down, but the newest ones can stay aloft for years.

Behold your "satellites" ...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FAT3f8NwprOk/  (warning:  a bit of foul language here ... a fair number F-bombs as the guy sees it "transiting" the moon)

Re entry from space.  Laughable.  Imagine you're an astronot on a rocket, leaving earth, which according to the heliocentric model is going 67,000 mph.  It would take an entire year to catch earth again and only if you waited in the exact right spot for it to come back around.  Unless we have a space ship that goes 68,000 mph they never mentioned. This is the nonsense NASA wants us to believe and for some odd reason people are still trying to piece together this corpse of an idea hoping to resurrect portions of it. To include the globe.  Neither is there such thing as "orbit". Any man-made thing that goes up, must come down, after the fuel is consumed.  Until it comes down, it's fueled.  As pointed out before in this thread, fuel operates in earth's atmosphere only, so it's obvious "space" rockets are a lie.  It becomes clear how people will be persuaded to believe the Antichrist is god if they are willing to believe pathetic NASA lies.

I'm sorry to say that you're embarassing yourself here, Tradman, as you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

I'd advise you to research frames of reference, inertial systems, and orbital mechanics before you say anything on this topic again.

A rocket leaving Earth moving at 68,000mph retains the same speed ± it's own velocity obviously, also called deltaV.

What actually creates the reentry heat is a spacecraft that orbits Earth and starts entering the atmosphere at very high speeds - still relative to the 68,000mph movement vector - which creates immense friction with the air molecules brushing against the hull.

Also, it's not just NASA. But because you like it so much, here is footage of a reentry, filmed directly from the spacecraft:


Gorgeous CGI, or is it? Oh, here's a Russian spacecraft that is intentionally deorbited and disposed of:

Also, it's not just NASA. But because you like it so much, here is footage of a reentry, filmed directly from the spacecraft:


Gorgeous CGI, or is it? Oh, here's a Russian spacecraft that is intentionally deorbited and disposed of:

Again, argument from ignorance. I showed video of a dude testing a rocket engine in his homemade vacuum tube, and it still works:

He filmed a nice weather ballon, that's great.