Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!sics!pd
From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Shuttles, east and west.
Keywords: Space Shuttle, Discovery, Soviet Shuttle
Message-ID: <2127@sics.se>
Date: 30 Sep 88 13:27:25 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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Yesterday evening Swedish television, after some footage of Discovery
blasting away skywards, showed the Soviet shuttle on it's launch pad.
It looked *very* similar to the American shuttle, even complete with
something that looked like an external tank and two SRBs. They only
showed one low angle picture which didn't show much of anything except
the orbiter. I got the impression that it was slightly smaller than
the American shuttle, almost like a scaled down version. Have the
soviets published pictures of the shuttle previously?
According to the newscaster Soviet TV did not say anything about
Discovery on the news.

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