Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!viper!dave From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Soviet Shuttle Message-ID: <1600@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Date: 16 Nov 88 09:33:59 GMT References: <704@sas.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN Lines: 22 In article <704@sas.UUCP> sasbrb@sas.UUCP (Brendan Bailey) writes: > > Well it happened. I saw footage on CNN last night of the >Soviet Shuttle blasting off and footage this morning of it landing. >I was stunned that they pulled it off. I was very impressed with >the smooth landing. > If everything went okay, can you say "The United States has fallen >farther behind."? I knew you could. :-( Hardly. It shows that the Soviets are almost a decade behind in this area at least. I applaud the fact that they are catching up though (as well as the fact that they are ahead in other areas.) -- a thousand years from now it won't matter who was first, as long as _somebody_ explores the Universe. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ __ _ _ _ David Messer - Lynx Data Systems / ) / ' ) ) ) dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- / / __. , __o __/ / / / _ _ _ _ __ ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia! /__/_(_/|_\\/ <__(_/_ / ' (_