Re: Report: Moscow firm developing new, cheaper space shuttle

Mike DiMuzio (mdimuzio@cisnet.com)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:01:09 +0000

John Carberry wrote:
> 
> At 16:29 27/12/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9812/26/AM-Russia-Space.ap/index.html
> 
> Didn't they do that already with the Buran, and then abandoned it after one
> test flight.
> 
>    John Carberry
> 
> 

	Buran was launched once using the Energia booster.
Buran is only slightly smaller than the US space shuttle.

	The story indicated it was much smaller
than Buran and could be launched from the Space
Station, but doesn't say how it was going to get up
to the Space Station to be launched from there in the
first place.  ;-)

Mike
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