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The European Space Agency yesterday sent its space truck Johannes Kepler to a fiery death over the South Pacific in a perfectly-executed "destructive re-entry" at the end of the spacecraft's four-month mission to the International Space Station. ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2) plunged into Earth's atmosphere …

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  1. Lionel Baden

    Feels like a waste to me.

    Storage etc etc Extra bedrooms .....

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  2. Tony S
    Alien

    Shame

    Although I understand the reasons behind the decision to destroy the JK on re-entry, it is a pity - it would be useful to try to recover some of this hardware. If nothing else, it could act as a static feature to encourage people to get more interested in space flight.

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  3. The First Dave
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    Pictures would have been nice...

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  4. Adrian Esdaile
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    Stop using the south pacific as garbage dump!

    Oi! You lot up in the northern hemisphere! Stop using OUR oceans as a dump for your crap! Either develop a better way for dealing with your garbage, or drop the bloody things in your oceans for a change.

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  5. Malcom Ryder 1

    Deep Purple-Fireball

    The space truck looked like that classic rock LP cover for a while

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  6. bugalugs
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    6000km

    west of Chile could have been close to the former French Polynesia. Or is la belle still an empire ?

    AND Kepler WAS an unburnt medieval math genius till now.

    Space exploration. The ultimate in throw-away consumption, no ?

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