The Cosmodrone IRL *imgs* (Destiny)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Monday, June 15, 2015, 18:14 (3688 days ago) @ stabbim

It's interesting how similar their shuttle looks to the American version. I wonder if that's because they intentionally copied ours (not a terrible idea, since that design was already known to work)

Or perhaps a fairly terrible idea, since the Space Shuttle program had substantial financial and technical issues. It was ridiculously expensive to launch, the notion of being able to turn the craft around with fast and efficient maintenance wound up catastrophically underdelivering, and it wasn't a very reliable machine, being the vehicle for fourteen of the eighteen deaths that have ever occurred in spaceflight.