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

    Holy Cow!

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

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

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