Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <1988Oct3.171602.8693@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 88 17:16:02 GMT

In article <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>Aw, c'mon, Henry... I refuse to believe that engineering optimization 
>forces you to be THAT close in size and shape...
>... This is more than similar engineering; it is reverse engineering
>to a large degree.    ...if this
>really is the Soviet orbiter, it's a copy of ours.

Art Bozlee and Charlie Vick -- probably the top non-CIA Soviet-space-program
analysts in the West -- say "not so".  Given that they probably know more
about the Soviet space program than everyone in this newsgroup combined :-),
I am inclined to believe them.
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