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0 pointsbufferoverflow8y ago0 comments

No, they weren't designed that way. That literally never happened.

And if you're talking about just an idea, sci-fi writers were way ahead of USSR.

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dag118y ago

I think this is what the parent comment is referring to:

Never took off. Never went to the prototype stage even. All they made was a mock-up.

Plus he's talking about 70's and 80's, whereas that mock-up was made in 2001.

The point is that the idea itself isn't new, but space tech has been stagnant for decades before a company like SpaceX appeared on the scene

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