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muriel_volestrangler

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5. This is the 2nd choice Soviet stuff from the 70s

Reply to agent46 (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:42 PM

Jun 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKS_spacecraft

They sent the re-entry vehicle up unmanned a few times. The other stuff did get developed into bits of Mir or the ISS, but I'd be rather wary of the vital piece having been tested unmanned, and then dropped, 30 to 40 years ago.

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