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- hpodity, on 07/16/2009, -1/+22I think you mean "space lorry"
- fritzek, on 07/16/2009, -0/+8No, just lorries.
- MaxMWood, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6Are you serious?
- erkokite, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5I want to see them make a manned version (with a re-entry system of course). I know they can. They built a re-entry demonstrator that performed perfectly. MAKE IT SO, ESA!
- Jlaugh, on 07/16/2009, -1/+6And NASA owes the third reich big time for all the Penamunda V2 research and the Nazi rocket scientists they illegally smuggled into the US.
- ihavebeenseen, on 07/16/2009, -1/+5Cowboy Bebop had space trucks
- bdbr, on 07/16/2009, -0/+4NASA gets 0.5 to 0.6% of the budget in recent years. It got 4 to 5% in the 60s, preparing for the moon mission. Of course they could do more with so much money.
With small budgets, they have launched and maintained the Hubble telescope and flown missions for the ISS, launched several satellites and sent probes to the far reaches of the solar system and landed probes on Mars. What they have done with so LITTLE money is pretty amazing. - Swivelstick, on 07/16/2009, -1/+5Worked out well for you didn't it..
- cyberdork, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3"Our R & D made the ESA possible."
And the Heereswaffenamt made the NASA possible...
Don't be so smug! - jamaph, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3This is great! It's imperative we work together to stock the International Space Station. With NASA now turning its sights towards the moon, we need other nations to pick up the slack of our soon retirement of the Shuttle Program. In the near future we will use the Space Station to create a mid way point for heavy cargo to construct launch surfaces, labs, and dorms on the moon. Imagine 30 years from now....
- Marsin2010, on 07/16/2009, -1/+4The International Space Station is NOT appropriate to use as a stopping point on the way to the moon. ISS is in a high (57°) inclination orbit that is not energy efficient for trans-lunar missions. It would actually take considerably MORE energy to launch a craft to ISS and later take it to the moon than it would to launch directly from low inclination (28°) earth orbit directly to the moon. Equally, it makes no sense to use the moon as a stopping point on the way to Mars UNLESS all of the fuel for the moon-Mars stage is produced ON the moon.
- copypastry, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Texas is going to supply the gigantic truck testicles.
- aneirin, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3we might not have people living on the moon, but we have a goddamn robot on one of saturn's moons taking pictures right now. surely that's impressive enough?
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -2/+4I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
I've even rode the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed
If you give me weed, whites, and wine
Show me a sign, and I'll be willin' to keep on movin' - Nolgthorn, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2I love this type of stuff. What a waste of money the Bush administration was on about, how many trillion dollars spent on creating new terrorists instead of funding space and medicine?
Go EU! - inactive, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2*****. That whole cold war business is why they got stuff done, racing against red menace.
They were sending probes accross the solar system in the 70's and Nasa had it's own Space Station then too. - FlaNative, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1We had a lot of luck on Venus
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1And Faye....*swoon*.
- twinklyJesus, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1I just don't care. Von Braun came here because it was his best option, as did the others. They knew what the Russians would do if they caught them. I doubt much coercion was involved.
What I was trying to say is, let it go. We have enough conspiracies in the here and now, with this current administration to keep you busy for the rest of your life. WWII is a little "past due." - inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2*sigh* And NASA isn't putting together a new space vehicle until 2015...
- bdbr, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Well, also the ISS is to be decommissioned in seven years, so anything planning to use it should already be past design phase. The few Diggers that actually read the article will have seen that this "the only vehicle on the current timeline able to de-orbit the ISS when it is retired".
- yaosio, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2While Europe is building these all the US is doing is putting probes around and on other bodies and private companies are popping up for space travel, SpaceX just put a Malaysian satellite into space! It makes me sick how far behind we are.
- MrOmniscient, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Why do you get buried for "Space Truckin' "?
- Frostek, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Virtually impossible. The technology required for that is way off still.
- swizzcheez, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1Yeah Space Truckers! I needs me some square pigs!
- randomizer9, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1SPAAAAAAAACE TRUUUUCK!!
- Jlaugh, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1That's rich coming from a guy named twinky Jesus, grow up and don't blaspheme.
It's called operation paperclip look it up. It's a conspiracy fact not a theory. In fact Von Braun was part of it, so you do know about it. - Jlaugh, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
- dinglebutt, on 07/16/2009, -3/+3Now that Deep Purple song is playing in my head.
- Philbert, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1Sadly this reminded me of an episode or episodes of Muppet Babies when they were flying around space in a trash truck. I think it was a parody of Star Trek or something.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -2/+130 years ago they wouldn't have believed how little things have progressed and how much has been spent 30 years later.
- twinklyJesus, on 07/16/2009, -2/+1Jlaugh:
You got me there, I've never heard that conspiracy. I knew we smuggled Von Braun and the others out, I knew that we captured Nazi tech. The only illegal acquisition of rocket tech that I've ever heard about was Russia's arrest and transport of German prisoners after the war to get rocket scientists, and that is vague at best.
I think you need to provide a citation to support your claim or I call ***** on you and you should just let the grown ups talk. - twinklyJesus, on 07/16/2009, -5/+4It's been in use longer than any other space vehicle. ESA have anything that's been in service for +20 years? Anyone else come up with this capability without help from NASA? Only the USSR. No one else has done squat without borrowing from or directly getting assistance from NASA. Our R & D made the ESA possible.
Don't be so smug. - jimbohawkins, on 07/16/2009, -3/+1I still think they should just build a space elevator to the ISS...
- ubernoggin, on 07/15/2009, -5/+2You mean they're not using a series of tubes?
- twinklyJesus, on 07/16/2009, -6/+1Yeah, our space "truck" has only been flying for 20 years, while EU has been using...rockets. Like the ones we were using 40 years ago. They are so advanced /s
- wukillabee, on 07/16/2009, -15/+1do they even have trucks in europe?
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