Re: NEW 'Polyus' space battlestar images

From: Anthony Frost (Vulch_at_vulch.org)
Date: 11/20/04


Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:30:23 +0000

In message <%ILnd.12888$KQ2.4335@fe2.texas.rr.com>
          "Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote:

> Just got this alert from a friend -- a LOT
> of unpublished Polyus images at
> http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30510
>
> This was the bird that the Soviets military built and planned
> to launch without telling Gorbachev -- he found out, and ordered the
> rocket test to proceed but the payload to not be activated.

And as some of the comments on the page say, a lot of those photos,
especially the one with the Energia at 45 degrees, could have come
straight out of a Thunderbirds episode.

         Anthony



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