From: utzoo!decvax!cca!David.Smith@CMU-10A@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Russian space shuttle
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1706
Posted: Thu Jun 10 11:31:29 1982
Received: Fri Jun 11 04:27:43 1982

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.