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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbiters
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.062306.4543@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 90 06:23:06 GMT
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In article <1990Oct27.220840.3756@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Uh, what "amount of data and development"?  Contrary to popular misconception,
>the Soviets did not just Xerox the plans for the US orbiter.  The overall
>layout is similar, but many details are different.  They'd have had to do
>most of the development and test work from scratch.

Well, we had a guest here at WPI last year. He was one of the first westerners
to visit the aerospace institute in Moscow. (Sorry, I don't remember his name.)
Anyway, when He was taken on a tour of the wind tunnel there were many models
of the orbiter laying around. They were marked with a certain four letter
acronym? Can you guess it? Give up?

NASA.
It seems nasa sold its wind tunnel models when it was done testing and the
Russians bought 'em all up, along with anything els NASA wanted to sell.
That's a major reason for the resemblence.

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