[Tucker39]

Here is a link to info on the Russian shuttle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

[CodeToad]

I know it well. They copied a lot of our design, but, frankly, I wish we could have cooperated as we are now. It is very expensive and our two countries could have shared so much over the years instead of letting our polidiots use boogieman tactics to build the military industrial complexes that they did.