From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer Newsgroups: net.space Title: Russki shuttle Article-I.D.: watmath.2601 Posted: Sat Jun 12 18:00:11 1982 Received: Sun Jun 13 04:59:04 1982 The Reds haven't flight tested their bird to orbit; they've shot it up and gotten it down on a suborbital flight. We *don't know* even how it got up and how it got down: it may have used chutes rather than its wings, like Mercury. I need something better than this sort of story before I'll swallow a Russian shuttle.