Document sheds light on Boeing/Grumman plans

[spacefire]

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[tap_sa]

You mean for soyuz style landing on Earth? I'd leave them out and just splash into an ocean or great lake. Anyway, they aren't very massive, they have to impart only something like a few tens of meters per sec dV.