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When did Jack Swigert realize that he forgot to file his taxes?
Jack Swigert realized that he forgot to pay his taxes around the first hour of the second day. Here's the dialogue from the Apollo 13 transcript: Note, Jack Swigert is the CMP (Command Module Pilot), ...
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California's rocket tax "by the mile", how would that work exactly?
The official draft
It appears that "milleage" is in fact understood as "altitude":
if a company can’t reveal the specifics of its mission due to confidentiality concerns — common with contracts ...
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What expenses and risks might the state of California incur that might partially justify a new "rocket tax"?
SpaceX wanted a sensible tax because sooner or later space launches would get taxed, and they feared whatever monstrosity would the legislator came up with if left to their own devices. The nice part ...
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