Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!ewiles
From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Notes on BURAN (the Shuttleskiy)
Summary: Classified vs Unclassified
Keywords: BURAN, Soviet Space Shuttle
Message-ID: <1022@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 02:24:30 GMT
References: <9395@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
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In article <9395@watdragon.waterloo.edu> awtron@rose.waterloo.edu (Andrew Tron) writes:
>A couple of notes on the new Soviet Space Shuttle:
>
>...the Soviets apparently got a lot
>of technical information about the American Space Shuttle from
>some scientific institute in Vienna.  The Soviets were partners
>in this institute, and the information they copied was UNCLASSIFIED.
>(I forgot the actual name of the institute.)  Some American space
>scientists were interviewed, who were disgusted at the fact that so
>much information about the Shuttle was unclassified and lying about
>in an unsecure place.

It is my understanding that NASA is *forbidden by it's charter* to have
classified information.  Which leads us to the silliness of the USAF having
certain information classified 'top secret' and the very same information
in NASA's files being totally unclassified.
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