Hopper (spacecraft)
Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency orbital and reusable launch vehicle. The shuttle prototype spaceplane was one of several proposals for a European reusable launch vehicle (RLV) planned to cheaply ferry satellites into orbit by 2015. The 'Phoenix' was a German-European project for a one-seventh scale model of the Hopper concept vehicle.
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Mrs. de Winter: No, she’s my employer. I’m what’s known as a paid companion.
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—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)