"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:46:15 +0200, in a place far, far away, nmp
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Op Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:35:13 -0400, schreef John Doe:

Jim Oberg wrote:
It's all but official-Russia and Europe will soon embark on a
cooperative effort to build a next-generation manned space shuttle.

While this is a most interesting development, it is not a shuttle
replacement, by far.

It may not be an STS replacement, but a shuttle it surely is.

Only if you think that the word "shuttle" means any partially reusable
vehicle that goes into and returns from orbit. That's not a
definition in any dictionary of which I'm aware.

The Shuttle is called 'Shuttle' because it is a Shuttle-service:
up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down etc. etc.

So this European-Russian spacecraft is a shuttle.

Rene