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EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design

Posted by timothy on from the it's-only-a-model dept.

schliz writes "Space flight planners have unveiled a new spaceship design for a joint EU/Russian trip to the Moon. The EU will be building the crew capsule, using technology developed for the automatic cargo system used to supply the International Space Station." First one to link to decent pics (the article has none) wins undying gratitude and a warm feeling inside.

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  1. Re:Space Unity by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Troll
    " A COLLECTIVE goal, like space travel, inspires people to do more work than what they are paid for."

    this sounds like dirty commie talk to me. and as history has proven, communism doesn't work because it ignores basic human nature - to compete and claw your way to the top.

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  2. Re:About time by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll
    you can afford it because you are lending money from the eu and china (see how that pans out).

    that aside, why the hell does someone on here always have to compare the cost of something to the war in iraq and why do they have to use bullshit inflated figures? yes fighting a war is bloody expensive, yes it's money that could be spent better else where. but the real cost is roughly 133 million a day. lieing about it doesn't do anyone any good.

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  3. Re:Examples by sumdumass · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't think you understand. The US has remote control capabilities and a US astronaut did what the Russian computer failed to do in about 10 minutes. I can understand relying on computers to do stuff your Cosmonauts can't do, The US just doesn't see them as brain dead as much.

  4. Re:Russia is the pioneer here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And by "our own technology" you mean the technology developed by the Russian,Jewish,German,English, and French Graduate students... (mostly emigrants studying in the US) Because I have yet to see an american born Science student that knows his ass from a hole in a ground.

    Regards,
    -Graduate Student.