[FPSPACE] Buran.Ru news - Polyus vs Mir-2

[JamesOberg@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/00 10:32:12 AM Central Standard Time, clj@emc.com 
writes:

<< Coincidently, I recall Jim Oberg saying that when he first heard of the 
N-1,
 he thought he had heard Energy, as the Russian (en-odin) sounds like 
en-ahdjin
 and it had been hurriedly whispered to him. >>

My mistake was worse -- I thought I had been told, in a noisy restaurant, 
that the name of the original moon rocket was "Enerdin", as in "Ener-dyne".