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European Space Shuttle Prototype Lands Safely In Sweden

Posted by timothy on from the that's-just-swedish-law dept.

This Nick Is Taken writes "Yahoo! News reports the successful test of a German designed prototype of the European space shuttle, Phoenix , taking place in the north of Sweden, moving the first all European mission into space one step closer."

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  1. Quick NASA needs more funding by Suburbanpride · · Score: 0, Troll

    Come on Dubya, you can't let those smelly europeans beat us in space travel! on another note, I believe russia actaully had a functioning space shuttle in the 80's, but the scraped it when the cold war ended.

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    1. Re:Quick NASA needs more funding by Gonoff · · Score: 0, Troll

      but the scraped it when the cold war ended

      scraped it on waht? The ground??

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  2. Big deal. by RayBender · · Score: 0, Troll
    Can someone please explain to me why this is an achievement? As I understand it they dropped a scaled-down glider from a helicopter and managed to have it land itself. BFD. The Russian Buran flew and landed (from orbit) autonomously back in the '80s. Now Europe comes along with a glider and we're supposed to be impressed?

    Talk to me when they get the thing back from an orbital flight.

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