Re: Waiting for controversy...?

in article mo89h2d4b4eocfj5j98fp62u0qedb4jodm@xxxxxxx, OM at
om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 9/22/06 8:00 PM:

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:49:16 GMT, George Evans
<georgee3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did they decide to continue cranking out beer cans before or after they
tried to develop an exact replica of our shuttle?

...Actually, the plans were to continue using Soyuz in conjunction
with Buran. There were missions where all those wings and cargo space
weren't necessary.

It has always been amazing to me that a completely different awkward
conglomerate of *Soviet* political, military, and scientific interests
conspired to create an identical vehicle. :-)

George Evans

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