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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle scrubbed again (and a NEW Soviet Shuttle?)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 16:52:55 GMT
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>In article <ARNAUD.90Sep18101120@schizo.schizo.imposter.samsung.com> arnaud@schizo.schizo.imposter.samsung.com (Alain Arnaud) writes:

>     On a unrelated note (or is it?), recently -- while ensnared in one of
>Seattle's many non-rush-hour grid-locks -- I caught the very tail-end of an
>NPR(?) interview of a Soviet space official. The official seemed to be 
>stating that the Buran-class shuttles are all but scapped and (yes, old news
>-- but the interesting part follows) that they are proceeding with the 
>development of a NEW shuttle system. 

HMM. Maybe. After all, an Energyna <sp> is a very nice booster even without
a Buran hitching a ride.