From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Soviet Shuttle Article-I.D.: alice.633 Posted: Thu Jun 10 07:24:36 1982 Received: Fri Jun 11 01:11:07 1982 The USSR launched and recovered its first test of its first space shuttle, US officials say. They do not know whether or not the vehicle was manned. It went up last week and came down after one orbit, about 90 minutes. The Soviets are expected to have an operational shuttle system by the 1990's.