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Cat fold 525 Posted 8 years ago
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We got that all figured out

Three weeks before a space launch, an astronaut tried to relax at an out-of-the-way pub. But the bartender recognizes him and says, "you fellows at NASA think you're something, going to the moon. But we've got a couple of guys here who've been building their own spaceship out back."
Reluctantly, the astronaut goes outside to look-the spaceship is a mess of beer bottles, cans and junk. "We're planning to go to the sun," boasts one guy.
"This thing will be incinerated before you can get close to the sun,“ the astronaut warns.
"We got that all figured out-we're going at night!"

1.Could you tell me what "a space launch" means?

2. According to the dictionaries, "to figure out something" means ”to understand something". So does "we got that all figured out" mean "we understand everything"? Thank you for you time and help.

  

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Here, "space launch" means the launch of aerospace vehicle - manned by astronauts, one of whom is the protagonist in the passage - into space, from the earth. In three weeks, the astronaut in the passage will be on that vehicle, a harrowing experience, thus, the need to relax before the flight. The astronaut in the passage contrasts sharply with the amateurs who are building a spaceship to the sun in back of the bar.

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  • Here, "space launch" means the launch of aerospace vehicle - manned by astronauts, one of whom is the protagonist in the passage - into space, from the earth.
  • In three weeks, the astronaut in the passage will be on that vehicle, a harrowing experience, thus, the need to relax before the flight.
  • The astronaut in the passage contrasts sharply with the amateurs who are building a spaceship to the sun in back of the bar.
  • Of course, these people don't "understand everything" about space flight, as they claim.
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Here, "space launch" means the launch of aerospace vehicle - manned by astronauts, one of whom is the protagonist in the passage - into space, from the earth. In three weeks, the astronaut in the passage will be on that vehicle, a harrowing experience, thus, the need to relax before the flight.


The astronaut in the passage contrasts sharply with the amateurs who are building a spac

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cat fold 5251.Could you tell me what "a space launch" means?

They launch a rocket into outer space, this time with an astronaut aboard.

cat fold 525So does "we got that all figured out" mean "we understand everything"?

Something like that. They completely solved the problem.

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