Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob
From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Name for new Shuttle: Buran !
Message-ID: <899@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Nov 88 17:18:47 GMT
References: <1131@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project
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In article <1131@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>The Soviet Space Shuttle orbiter is on the pad attached to the Energiya
>booster.  According to the name painted on its side, it is called
>'BURAN' (Snowstorm).

The BBC also reported that the second soviet shuttle,
currently still under construction, is called Ptichka.
They gave the translation as Birdie.
	Bob.