Re: Trust But Verify ...

From: JimO (jameseoberg_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 06/30/04


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:10:31 GMT


"rk" <stellare@NOSPAMPLEASE.erols.com> wrote
> The Buran had been detected only by chance; the Soviets did not realize
> the KH-11 was a reconnaissance satellite. Whenever a KH-9 satellite had
> overflown the test center where the Buran was being built, activities
had
> been suspended and the Buran covered by netting ...

Story goes, the carrier a/c had run off the runway and nose gear was stuck
in soft ground.



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