[net.space] Russian space shuttle

David.Smith@CMU-10A@sri-unix (06/10/82)

From: David.Smith at CMU-10A (C410DS30)
I think it was in 1979 that Aviation Week ran a drawing of a Russian
space shuttle that was said to be undergoing drop tests from a
bomber.  The vehicle is a lot smaller than our shuttle, and is
meant as a personnel shuttle, rather than for orbiting large loads.
It is to be launched by an expendable booster.  It is more in the
league of the Dyna-Soar and the European Hermes design.

Russian cries over military use of our shuttle are just crocodile
tears, even without their shuttle.