[FPSPACE] Msnbc.com (Oberg): Russia ready to take lead on spacestation

[Jim Oberg]

Well, Buran DID perform takeoff and landing tests with its own jet engines,
but they didn't have useful payloads except itself.


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From: "CHARLES, JOHN B. (JSC-SL) (NASA)" <john.b.charles at nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Msnbc.com (Oberg): Russia ready to take lead on
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> Thanks, I remember the first Energiya launch, with the Polyus payload.
But
> that's not what Medvedchikov was quoted as saying.  Despite his sentence
> construction (without the benefit of some almost Clintonesque
> quote-parsing), he clearly meant that the Buran component could fly
> independently of the Energiya component.  I wish Jim Oberg had clarified
> this misstatement by Medvedchikov, especially in light of the subsequent
> implication in the article that the Buran orbiter was significantly
superior
> to the American orbiter.
>
> John Charles
> Houston, Texas
>
> JBC via Blackberry
>
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> The meaning is quite simple.  Energiya can fly with or without Buran.
Thus
> it is already designed to act as a cargo carrier.
>
>
> "CHARLES, JOHN B. (JSC-SL) (NASA)" <john.b.charles at nasa.gov>
> wrote:"Medvedchikov claimed that "the thinking behind the Energiya-Buran
> project
> is far more practical. The Energiya booster rocket and the Buran space
> shuttle are independent of each other," and the components could fly on
> separate missions."
>
> Can somebody explain how the Buran can fly without the Energiya?
>
> John Charles
> Houston, Texas
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