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Originally Posted by ET2SN
Au contraire, I'm sure the robotic lifting and grappling arm on the Space Shuttle was designed and constructed in Canada while the early rocket engines started out on drawing boards in Germany.
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Yes, but that robotic arm was not vital, if it had failed, the craft and crew still would have lived and returned. The booster rockets were not built in Europe or Canada, AFAIK, but the US.
If the service module for Artmeis with its life support and energy systems as well as rocket fuel fails, then everybody aboard will be dead and the craft will never come home.