Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!oberon.usc.edu!skat.usc.edu!kriz (Dennis Kriz)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle launch imminent
Message-ID: <8811051419.AA17924@skat.usc.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 88 14:19:04 GMT
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Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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To: henry@utzoo.UUCP
In-Reply-To: <1988Oct28.180827.25578@utzoo.uucp>
Cc:

I think you came down a bit hard on us down here...  The Soviets have always
had a more hard nose nuts and bolts no frills approach to space.  The Energia
is simply a "big dumb booster" design.  The same could be said of virtually
all the soviet launching vehicles.

THat is what makes the Soviet shuttle so strange.  When we over here are 
starting to see the folly of making incredibly expensive and unnecessarily
compli