This is going to be neat...
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=27279
Space: ESA's Autonomous Space Truck Blasts Off Tomorrow
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Space: ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Blasts Off Tomorrow
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Wow, cool. I'm embarassed to say I didn't realize this was going on. It looks like a small MPLM module with an engine.
It's only weakness is that it docks at a Russian "personnel" hatch, so it can't bring up LARGE rack-sized items like the MPLM can.
But other than that,it's pretty nifty...
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