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From: joefish@disk.UUCP (joefish)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbiters
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Date: 24 Oct 90 15:08:56 GMT
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Articles posted repeatedly refer to the Soviet Buran shuttle launch in
1988 as in the same class as the U.S. shuttles........ It is not, simply
because the Buran launch was a vehicle without life support systems, and
without the ability to permit adding life support systems in the future.

AW & ST magazine reported this and the launch of a manned mission Soviet
shuttle is still to be sometime in the future.

The Soviet Buran launch was just a test of the flight and control
dynamics.

Joe Fischer