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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. Re:how do you guys get first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you guys be such total faggots?

    Do you keep assramming other guys every 5 nights and wait for AIDS? :)

  2. 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. Re:Quick NASA needs more funding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Looks like a clone to me. One that didn't have functional life support, no crew usuable software, and a limited memory. It had to make remote controlled landings. sounds really advanced...NOT!

  3. 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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  4. Re:Whoa! Where did this come from? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've never even heard of a European space shuttle. The American one, yes. The old Soviet one (Buran), yes. But European? Hot damn, this is great news!

    You won't hear about it because it won't explode on takeoff, or melt down to smithereens upon reentry, like the shite space technology you guys produce. As for the Buran, well, it goes to show that the Russians had more sense than wasting money on the copy of a piece of crap (besides not having any money to throw at it anyway). They just wanted to show they could copy American technology and improve a bit on it, and in this they succeeded.

  5. Is that the japanese version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It looks almost big enough to hold a small japanese woman.

    Do the europeans consider that impressive these days? No wonder Airbus sucks.

  6. Re:What is that flag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    -3 redundantt

  7. Re:bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, that's right... the bipolar disorder is showing its ugly face again. One post about bad grammar is modded up, the other is modded down. Please, just answer me this: "Why?"