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: RightWhale
9 posted on
07/05/2005 7:03:44 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: RightWhale
I think the Buran was the result of tremendous practical joke we played on the Russians. After they spent a huge amount of time and money to get one to fly, it became apparent that it was a terrible way of going to space.
15 posted on
07/05/2005 8:27:25 PM PDT by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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