Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2204@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 88 22:48:01 GMT

In article <2204@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jck@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Chuck Kesler) writes:
>... it looked as big as ours, but I was under the impression
>that theirs was quite a bit smaller...

You're thinking of their "mini-shuttle" experiments, the purpose of which
is still disputed.  Their big shuttle is pretty much the same size as the
US one, although the detail design is very different.
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