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North Korea Accused of Testing an ICBM With Missile Launch Into Space (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington writes: Reuters reported that North Korea launched a long-range missile that is said to have placed a satellite into space. The launch happened much to the consternation of North Korea's neighbors, South Korea and Japan, as well as the United States. Pyongyang claimed that the missile launch was part of that country's peaceful space program. But, other countries are pretty sure that the launch was a test of an ICBM capable of placing a nuclear weapon on any target in the world, particularly the United States.
32 Saturn missions? Nope. Saturn was purpose built for heavy lift - moon missions and sky lab.
135+ Space Shuttle missions? Nope. Space shuttle was built for purpose.
29 and counting Falcon launches? Nope. Privately designed launch vehicle - See Elon Musk
120+ Scout launches, not really no. Some scout models reused existing components from other rockets when each stage might come from a different system, but was its own system, and it didn't serve as a missile. Various models sourced their components differently.
Some launch vehicles such as Titan and Atlas were derived from missiles from the 1950s and 1960s, but have only been used for space missions for decades. Neither belonged to the Army.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell