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India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-on-a-hard-job dept.

bharatm writes "In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."

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  1. Now all they need to do.... by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is test an ASAT missile.

    (I'm sure that's coming.)

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  2. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy Cow!

  3. Re:And yet by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    India launches them. China shoots them down. And NASA spends several years and several $billion contracting with Boeing to develop a missle-proof satellite system to be ready "sometime in 2022."

    -Eric

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  4. Re:And yet by RafaelGCPP · · Score: 3, Funny

    And what about sharks?? That would be evil!

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  5. Best thing by Fist!+Of!+Death! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best to retrieve it before China shoots it down I guess.

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  6. Moonraker? by Brunellus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just started humming the theme from "Moonraker"

  7. Re:Priorities by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, clearly, the only possible two choices are "Spend money on space" and "Spend money on food for the poor".

  8. Re:You miss something by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ""India launches them. The United States, Russia and China shoot them down. "

    I certainly hope not.

    This is the first step by India, hopefully, towards establishing the first Quickie Mart on the moon!!

    :-)

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