19 Jun
2000
19 Jun
'00
9:02 a.m.
--- Douglas Quebbeman
<dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
Now that you've said it, I do recall Dmitri called it the "Buran";
it was some other reference lost to memory that called it the
"Snowflake"... I always ASS-U-MEd Buran == Snowflake...
-dq
Ok, here's a quote from one of my favorite
computer scientists
(Tom VanVleck...
The quote is from an article of his on the Multicians web site:
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/evolution.html
I left my last job as a full-time programmer in 1990. A young
Russian (who had written some of the software tools used in
generating the control programming for Snowflake, the never-used
Soviet space shuttle)
I've seen the Buran (sitting in Gorky Park at the moment). I've never
heard it called "Snowflake". Is this the same bird? The Buran flew
once, unmanned, and is now a tourist attraction, rotting away in the
Russian weather. I have some pictures I can scan if anyone cares.