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Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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Sun, 1 Nov 1998 23:20:28 GMT
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They weren't the first to have a Space Shuttle, though.  Do they still
use it?  I assume, if they do, that's how they get to the Mir Space
Station.  Am I right?

Jeff

Ardjan Besse wrote:
> 
> Op een zekere dag, te weten Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:07:16 GMT, klom "Matt
> Marshall" <Matt@rapturesoft.hypermart.net> in het toetsenbord en schreef
> ons:
> 
> > 2)They had to fly a really long way, except from the Siberian outposts and
> > those were actually targeted for California and such and those probably
> > would have frozen controls beside.
> 
> Don't underestimate the Russians! They where the first to take a sattelite
> into space, the first man in space, the first woman, the first docking, they
> had the first space station, the longest stay and so on.
> I don't say the russioan stuff isn't rusty now (I was there twice, once
> during the summer-revolution in 1991!), but what the built was sturdy, and
> it worked.
> On the other side we have the Americans, who control a destroyer with a
> NT-network, and have stealth fighters with water-soluble painting....
> And when the american government did no about the russian equipment, why
> where they so in panic? Didn't they know the russians couldn't get their
> rockets in the air?
> 
> Greetings, Ardjan (once called a commie.....)



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  Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
 
Jeff Stembel wrote in message <363CECBB.671140E8@aol.com>... (...) If you mean the Russians, they use their heavy launch rocket with a capsule, or they bum a ride on the US Space Shuttle. They don't use theirs anymore. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The (...) (28 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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Op een zekere dag, te weten Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:07:16 GMT, klom "Matt Marshall" <Matt@rapturesoft.hy...rmart.net> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Don't underestimate the Russians! They where the first to take a sattelite into space, the (...) (28 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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