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Russia Loses Inflatable Spacecraft
Treeluvinhippy writes: "This article is a little light on details, but it looks like the Russians lost the Demonstrator-2 spacecraft. For those who don't know this craft was the inflatable launched from a submarine. Slashdot has the scoop of the launch right here"
It's probably as good as anything else Russia's government has produced in the last 10 years.
Kinda rude.... Russia has maintained her space program, despite the inability of the government to afford it. We have cut the living shit outta ours also, and Nasa hasn't been having such a great time with it. Mars?
Russia should be commended for trying a cool idea. reusing ICBM's and creating cheap spacecraft seems like a good idea...Too bad
Why is it that every single post on some good idea that does not come from the USA ends up on /. getting trolled and flamebaited to all hell? One would think , or at least hope, that the kind of people who frequent /. would be a little bit more open minded than that.
Apart from that, I like the idea of this experiment that the Russians are doing. Apart from turning ICBM's into space launchers and having a good way of protecting packages that must return to earth, it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology.