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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Things aint so bad
Message-ID: <198@geovision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 13:23:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: geovisio.198
Posted: Wed Oct  7 13:23:22 1987
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In article <163@splut.UUCP> stu@splut.UUCP (Stewart Cobb) writes:
>James Oberg [Red Star in Orbit, etc.] thinks that the Russians have no real
>plans for a shuttle.  What we're seeing (in Soviet Military Power and such)

James Oberg, for all his good work, has been known to be wrong before.
In cases like this I trust the opinions of people like Charlie Vick
and Art Bozlee.   The big one is definitely a shuttle.  The small one
photo'd when it splashed down in the Indian Ocean may have been
a scale test model.  It may also have been a full size test of a
highly manoeverable reentry vehicle for weapons.  But Shuttleski almost
certainly exists.
-- 
 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
                      UUCP: ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!alastair

 "What we really need is a good 5-cent/gram launch vehicle."