Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Minimum Shuttle Crew Size
Keywords: Shuttle, crew, soviet
Message-ID: <1215@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 14:02:29 GMT
References: <765@hutto.UUCP> <Nov.10.11.29.32.1989.29066@topaz.rutgers.edu> <2111@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
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rossd@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Ross) writes:

>In article <Nov.10.11.29.32.1989.29066@topaz.rutgers.edu> msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes:
>>The first shuttle mission or two (Columbia) were manned by two-man
>>crews.

> And the Soviets, with a shuttle that should seem just a LITTLE familiar,
>have made their first launches without the aid (extra bother?) of a crew.


Don't forget that the Soviets had two items going for them:

1.	An extra ten years of technology

2.	All the research done for them by the US.


JB
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