Re: NEW 'Polyus' space battlestar images
From: Kerry Ferrand (kferrand_at_rocketmail.dot.com)
Date: 11/20/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:05:13 +1300
In article <%ILnd.12888$KQ2.4335@fe2.texas.rr.com>,
jameseoberg@houston.rr.com says...
> 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 of unpublished Polyus images at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.
>
> Conveniently -- and I suspect, not accidentally -- the
> orbit circularization burn at first apogee failed. May 1987, I recall.
>
> Had it gone into orbit, while Reagan was president, it would
> likely have sparked a major 'Stars Wars' space military race
> with potentially dreadful consequences.
>
>
>
Glad its not just me who hadn't seen some of those photos
before..thought I may have been a bit out of touch. I'm the poster
called 'KDF' on that page. Its a nice site to lurk on and find neato
stuff..unfortunately there's alot of name calling by rabid teenage
'patriots' in many of the threads.
K
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