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To: Boogieman

A shuttle makes a regular or semi-regular trip between 2 locations, so in that sense Soyuz is a space shuttle.


9 posted on 07/23/2015 10:32:36 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood

No, because the Soyuz rocket never comes back, it is a one-way trip.

You might be able to say the capsule is a “shuttle”, colloquially, but in terms of spacecraft, the word shuttle means something very specific, and Soyuz doesn’t fit the definition.


19 posted on 07/23/2015 11:31:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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