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It's not really comparable to the space shuttle. It's about 30 feet long (compared to the shuttle's 180 feet) and launches as a payload of a regular rocket.

It has some similarities in its heat shield, the wings and the runway landing, but as a tiny robotic vehicle that doesn't need fast turnaround because it's in space for many months at a time many of the problems of the space shuttle don't apply.




Ah, longer term flights seems like a big change in the equation.




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