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   Message 1,384 of 3,113   
   Henry Spencer to III   
   Re: Russian Super Rocket   
   30 Jan 04 02:01:20   
   
   XPost: sci.space.history, uk.tech.rocketry   
   From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <101j048hjbucn83@corp.supernews.com>,   
   Joseph S. Powell, III  wrote:   
   >Well, in addition to the single, unmanned Buran flight (and the Polyus   
   >death-star test), wasn't Energia used to launch the segments of the   
   >now-defunct-killing-teenage-American-girls-with-it's-toilet-seats-upon-reent   
   >ry Mir?   
      
   Nope.  Mir's modules all went up on Proton.  There was, at one point, a   
   plan for a much larger Mir 2 using Energia launches, but that didn't last   
   long.   
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   since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending.        | henry@spsystems.net   
      
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