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re: Ruins of the Soviet space shuttle program.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:00 pm to knight_ryder
Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:00 pm to knight_ryder
The bigger question not being asked in this thread is why their shuttle looks so much like ours? Could it be they had the better spy network?
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Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:10 pm to Cheese Grits
That's the first thing I thought. Or, its actually design that came from Nazi Germany. We wouldn't have had much of a space program in the 60s without German intelligence.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 8:02 pm to Cheese Grits
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The bigger question not being asked in this thread is why their shuttle looks so much like ours? Could it be they had the better spy network?
It's no secret that the Russian space shuttle program was built on cornerstones of stolen US technology. It's my understanding, though, that they rushed into the program using old intel that was a decade behind the shuttles we launched.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 9:11 pm to Cheese Grits
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The bigger question not being asked in this thread is why their shuttle looks so much like ours? Could it be they had the better spy network?
No question. Go look up the Soviet version of the Concorde, the TU-144. An almost exact replica, and cool stories of how they got the plans from the French.
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