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Hello sci.space.shuttle ----

The following is excerpted (without permission, but hopefully
they won't mind too much) from Via Satellite magazine, 2/90 issue,
page 15:

Soviet Shuttle--No Flights until 1991

The reusable Soviet space shuttle Buran, lying idle since its maiden flight
a year ago, is to undertake its next mission in 1991, the Soviet Union's
chief rocket designer, said yesterday.

Yuri Semyonov told Soviet television that Buran would make an unmanned
flight in the first half of 1991, with a manned mission to follow a year 
later.  Long-range plans call for Buran to dock with the orbiting station
Mir with the possibility of astronauts moving between the two to simulate
a rescue operation.

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Any discussion, observations, or comments ?  Does anyone know the
capacity (i.e., max. # of "passengers") carryable on Buran ?

M. Baker
AT&T-BL, Holmdel, NJ

(Via Satellite is published monthly by Phillips Publishing, Inc. at 7811
Montrose Road, Rockville, Maryland 20850, (301) 340-2100.  Circulation is
free to qualified recipients.)