The Cosmodrone IRL *imgs* (Destiny)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 00:51 (3688 days ago) @ uberfoop

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 <snip> and it wasn't a very reliable machine, being the vehicle for fourteen of the eighteen deaths that have ever occurred in spaceflight.

Ok, but I mean the system had like what, 130 missions and an average of like 10 days in flight per mission iirc? I mean, what portion of all U.S. space flight does that represent? Not to mention the highest crew capacity.