[FPSPACE] Article that Buran could possibly be revived--to aid the US

Sergey V. Andreev kirin at hippo.ru
Fri Dec 5 10:03:01 EST 2008


> Speaking of You Only Live Twice, note that while the clearly Gemini
> spacecraft are called Jupiter, the Soviet spaceship that was captured
> later on was called Gemini! 
?:)

> I know it was a two-seater capsule, but 
> still.  And they used footage of a Gemini-Titan liftoff (complete with
> palm trees) to represent the Soviet launch.  You would think at least
> a few people in 1967 might have figured out that was an American
> space rocket.
ugu, I have seen a magazie ("TSAGI technical information") with detailed
description of Titan. Magazine was issued in 1965.


> The Soviet "Gemini" was based on the earlier Western conjecture
> that their manned vessels were shaped like the nosecones - either
> that or they just couldn't be bothered to go into detailed research.
TKS VA resemble Gemini a litle
and Yantar. But nothing similar in reality maybe exept shape.

ASV




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