Reuters contributed to this report, written by CNN Interactive Space Writer Richard Stenger.

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Various contributors agreed on the sheer scale of the technological difficulties, including Rajat Agrawal, a technology writer in Mumbai, and Amy Shira Teitel, a space historian in Phoenix.

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