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From: bob@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Things aint so bad
Message-ID: <632@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 06:26:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 06:26:24 1987
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Reply-To: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
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In article <474@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski) writes:
>I don't know where you're getting your information,  but the Soviets have
>NOTHING that can compare to the shuttle.  There is nothing on the pad

Then what is that shuttle model they have been test launching?

>anywhere in the Soviet Union that even remotely resembles the shuttle.  And

True. Their shuttle seems to be of the lifting body design tested by
NASA in the sixties.

>there's no way you can get me to beleive that ANY Russian hardware performs 
>better than the shuttle. And 'glitz' or 'zippiness'  has nothing to do with
>it. 
The russians launch people and satelites into orbit.
That IS better performance.
>
>The Soviets do not have the capability of transporting payloads into space
>and returing with other payloads.  They do not have the capability of
>sending teams of scientists and technicians into space all at once like we
>can with the shuttle.  
They don't need to. They go up seperately and stay in their
space station.
>
> ..... Besides,  high technology
>is expensive,  and the shuttle is probably the most advanced space vehicle
>in the world today.  IT'S WORTH IT.
>
This is the most expensive, most complex, most advanced
space vehicle in the world.... Whats that? Well no, it
doesn't actually launch things. 

>Get on the stick and get with the program,  man.  Or at least get the right
>information

At last. Something I can agree with.
	Bob.