China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle

Where have we seen this before?Car-Plane-GoChina has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.As Space.com reports, the project — dubbed Haolong — recently won the state-owned Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute a government contract to develop a low-cost space station cargo spacecraft.The country’s human spaceflight agency selected two proposals last month as part of its efforts to regularly resupply its three-year-old space station.And because China is looking to greatly expand its space station in the coming…

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