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Subject: Re: Re: Name for new Shuttle: Buran !
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Date: 5 Nov 88 04:19:56 GMT
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/ eecs.nwu.edu:sci.space.shuttle / bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) / 11:18 am  Nov  1, 1988 /
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.
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And when it launches they will say, "Watch the Birdie!" :-)

Or maybe, "Bye, bye, Birdie!"

	Robert Lentz

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