To: org.whodat
“I think it is a test of flight controls, and heat shields, but it could have launched a small satellite, but some here cannot get it in their head that the thing is traveling at 17,000 miles per hour.”
It has already completed one multi-month mission, and successfully landed autonomously - a first. It’s a showcase of the advantages of unmanned space vehicles.
21 posted on
12/03/2011 3:19:05 PM PST by
PreciousLiberty
(Cain '12 - Take Back America!!!)
To: PreciousLiberty
Different craft than the first one.
22 posted on
12/03/2011 3:30:51 PM PST by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
To: PreciousLiberty
Wrong, maybe the same craft, it may stay up there if they do not get it back soon.
23 posted on
12/03/2011 3:41:21 PM PST by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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