Subj : Kerosene Engines
To   : Charles Radley
From : Andrey Kanunnikov
Date : Mon Aug 14 2000 04:05 pm

Hello, Charles!

Sunday August 13 2000 07:34, Charles Radley wrote to Vadik Akimoff:

 VA>> And as you must know, first (and unfortunately last) Buran flight
 VA>> was fully humanless, under control of Buran's computer.
 CR>  Why unfortunately ?  Buran was an economic nightmare, like the NASA
 CR>  Space Shuttle still is, rather a waste of money.  An interesting
 CR>  technological achievement, but commercially not viable.
To my mind Buran was a brave and large enough step of our space technology
developers. Yes, from the economical positions it was not beneficial but that 
is just a project that gave to us some new perspectives. I think we had not to 
stop it.

                             I will glad to see you in the future. Andrey.

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