Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: USSR's Progress 40 performs interesting operations at Mir
Message-ID: <1989Mar9.163957.28555@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8903071930.AA18546@ll-vlsi.arpa> <1989Mar8.081925.26615@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 16:39:57 GMT

In article <1989Mar8.081925.26615@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>... What, in particular, should we learn from the observation that
>even with a launcher 4 or 5 times cheaper than the shuttle (Proton),
>they have a space station only a fraction the size of Skylab? ...

Probably that they just haven't got around to launching the rest of it yet.

The US ("international") space station will also be smaller than Skylab.
(By internal volume, based on the last numbers I heard, which admittedly
are pretty old.)
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