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

Jens Lerch (nils.lerch@frankfurt.netsurf.de)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:07:20 +0000

> John Carberry wrote:

> > >http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9812/26/AM-Russia-Space.ap/index.html

> 	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.  ;-)

Obviously someone combined air station and spaceport in a wrong way.

The most detailed information on Molniya's air-launched MAKS space
plane is at http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceebd/molniya6.htm

Future space planes are off-topic for SeeSat, they are currently 
discussed in Usenet's sci.space.policy newsgroup.

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