... The aerospaceplane project dated 29 June 1966 provided for the development of a 115-t orbital system consisting of three winged VTOL reusable aircraft: the 52-t HLA reusable hypersonic air-breathing launch aircraft, designated '50-50'; the RB expendable two stage rocket booster; and the OS manned orbital aerospaceplane, designated '50'. ... ORBITAL AEROSPACEPLANE DIMENSIONS . ... Instead, he came out with an initiative to start up the Buran programme in the USSR as a response to the US Shuttle. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Les gaz de la poudre, dilatаЙs par la chaleur, repoussаИrent avec une incomparable violence les couches atmosphаЙriques, et cet ouragan artificiel, cent fois plus rapide que l'ouragan des tempаКtes, passa comme une trombe au milieu des airs. ... On n'avait pas, d'ailleurs, entendu dire que le projectile fб?t retombаЙ sur un point quelconque des аОles et des continents terrestres, et J.-T. Maston n'admettait pas un instant une chute possible dans les ocаЙans dont le globe est aux trois quarts couvert...