Re: NASA HONORS LEGENDARY ASTRONAUT VANCE BRAND

Pat Flannery wrote:

We knew full well the Soviets were going to build a multimodule station as their next step in space, as they were dropping hints to that effect all over the place, and a painting of a huge multimodule Soviet station was portrayed on page 46 of that that most Reaganesque of all books, "Soviet Military Power-1984": http://www.fas.org/irp/dia/product/84_46.jpg (I'll bet they wished they had the funding for this thing; it's made out of no less than _twelve_ Salyut modules attached to a new core module that looks like it takes two Proton launches alone to assemble.)

And they have module reuse - that's Salyut 7 being plugged in as the last module. I used to have that book, and never notice the lack of accessible docking ports before :-)

Notice the deathray is pointing _away_ from Earth? The Russkies must have been defending us from the aliens..... aha! Gerry Anderson's 'UFO' must have been seen as 'Historical Documents' :-)

hugh
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