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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbiters
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.205937.25383@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 20:59:37 GMT
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In article <4374@disk.UUCP> joefish@disk.UUCP (joefish) writes:
>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,...

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

   By this, you do mean that the soviet shuttle #1 (ie buran) does not have
a LSS, but NOT that the entire fleet will be without.
   Then, I'd say that this 'launch' is in the same class as the US dropping
a shuttle to test the aerodyn & systems.

   BTY, what was the reported max altitude, and displacement down range of
the Buran 'launch'.  Any idea on the actual expected date ?
   It seems to me, that the development time of the Buran shuttle system,
has been rather lengthly, especially given the amount of data and devopment
that the soviets did NOT need to pioneer.
al


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