Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Shuttles
Message-ID: <1988Oct14.170004.1668@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1574@nunki.usc.edu> <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <820@super.ORG>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 88 17:00:04 GMT

In article <820@super.ORG> laurel@super.UUCP (Michael Tighe) writes:
>Rubbish! I have seen the Soviet Space Shuttle...

In person?  When?

> In fact, most Americans would not be able to 
>tell the difference between it and ours (except for the CCCP marking
>on the left wing).

Most Americans don't know the difference between a planet and a star.
(Really.)

>The most obvious difference I noticed was that
>the SRB's are much shorter. Other than that, its' a genuine
>example of technology transfer. First flight is scheduled for early
>December; delayed probably by a need to redesign the O rings.

There are no O-rings, since there are no SRBs.  (The things that look like
SRBs are four -- not two -- liquid-fuel boosters.)  Please don't sound off
unless you know what you're talking about.
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