It's true, Newtonian physics breaks down when you get into the realms covered by relativity theory, but it works very well for most applications. As a perfect example, let's look at the Apollo program. Three men were sent to the moon and back, with a lot of nifty calculations involved, without going beyond Newton's theories, along with the calculus he gave us. To put that in perspective, it means that spaceflight was a scientific possibility 300 years ago! All it took after that was the engineering end of things to catch up.

And puhleeeeze, don't anybody give me agro about engineering being a science too.

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