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Better redaction: "The title is misleading. They are testing a scale model."

The commenter's name should alert you to obvious biases.

Yes, a toy.

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Can you elaborate? As the article says it may be small but it's still a huge milestone.

No concern for recovery. No concern for life support. It's a toy.

It is a TD. Of course it is a toy (for the scientists to toy with design choices)

It's slightly shorter than the X-37. That's a toy too, right?

Yes. The Space Shuttle was huge compared to both of those. It could carry them to orbit in the payload bay.

> The Space Shuttle was huge compared to both of those

The Shuttle Orbiter was huge due to the DoD meddling in the design, but in all the wrong parameters. Certianly it could lift bulky payloads, but maximum inhabited on-orbit endurance was just 12 days.

In contrast the X-37 returned after 470 days on-orbit.

It's a trap.