To: KevinDavis
These authors need to give us a break!
The Ruskies copied our shuttle long ago from declassified and unclassified documents, and I believe, actually built an unmanned version of it.
I don't remember if they ever deployed it.
Let them start to build copies of twenty year old technology while we continue forward.
Idiots.
6 posted on
07/05/2005 6:46:56 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: bill1952
The Buran flew, orbited, and returned. Unmanned. One of them was destroyed while in storage.
8 posted on
07/05/2005 7:01:52 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: bill1952
The Ruskies copied our shuttle long ago from declassified and unclassified documents, and I believe, actually built an unmanned version of it. I don't remember if they ever deployed it.
They called it Buran. It was "man rated", at least in the soviet sense. They made one unmanned orbital flight before the program ran out of money.
Energia-Buran sits on the "left" launch pad at Site 110. View from the north. Credit: RKK Energia
Energia-Buran blasts off from Baikonur on November 15, 1988. Credit: RKK Energia
The Antonov-225/Mriya transport plane, carrying Buran orbiter, sits on the runway at Site 251 in Baikonur. Credit: RKK Energia
To: bill1952
This will be interesting, nasa giving up on space planes and going back to capsules and the Russians attempting a space plane instead of building more better capsules.
12 posted on
07/05/2005 7:32:07 PM PDT by
jpsb
(I already know I am a terrible speller)
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