Comment Yes, technology must be used (Score 3, Insightful) 423
but only to outsource technical and engineering jobs. Heaven forbid if we automate away accountants and bureaucracy. THEN technology is taking jobs away!
As for the return, I'd assume again we're talking about a capsule the size of a basketball that either crashes back to Earth or gets caught in mid-air by a plane. That's how film was recovered from early spy satellites.
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