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Europeans Plan to Launch Prototype Wingless, Reusable Spaceship By 2013

Posted June 22, 2011 10:18 AM

From Popular Science:

The European Space Agency announced plans today to launch a privately built snub-nosed space bullet, which sort of resembles a wingless, truncated space shuttle, within the next two years. Thales Alenia Space, builder of several International Space Station components and many European satellites, is manufacturing the spacecraft.

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06/23/2011 10:28 AM

looks unstable

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