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From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Name for new Shuttle: Buran !
Message-ID: <435@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 17:03:10 GMT
References: <1131@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <899@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
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In article <899@etive.ed.ac.uk> bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
>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.

Well, so much for my theory that the Soviets chose the name "Buran"
to fill in the obvious gap in the shuttle name list:
       Atlantis
        --
       Columbia
       Discovery
      (Enterprise)

Yes, of course I'm kidding.  :-)