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Space Rope Trick Experiment Goes Awry

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the harder-than-lassoing-cattle dept.

Tjeerd writes "An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a 30-kilometre tether fell short of its goal yesterday when the long fibre rope did not fully unwind, Russian Mission Control said. It was intended to deliver a spherical capsule, called Fotino, attached to the end of the tether back to Earth — a relatively simple and cheap technology that could be used in the future to retrieve bulkier cargoes from space.""

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  1. Re:Obligatory obligatory by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Troll

    We can clearly see that the "stupid" count-down joke has already taken off.

    Some of us actually LIKE the "Soviet Russia" jokes...

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