http://humannaires.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/2-russian-space-shuttles-left-in-a-hangar-at-the-baikonur-cosmodrome/

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"This is a Russian space shuttle with a hyperdrive."

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Peter Eng
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Several years ago I had the opportunity to spend a week in Moscow(1). One evening we went on a dinner cruise (more like a drinking cruise) on the Moscow River. No one warned us there was a space shuttle sitting on the river embankment in Gorky Park! Don't know if that's the one they sold to the Germans, or if it's one of the ones at Baikonur, or what.

(1) This would have been a couple years or so after the coup attempt on Gorbachev - the one with the tank firing into the Russian White House. We stayed at the Hotel Ukraina (now the Radisson Royal Hotel), one of the "Seven Sisters" buildings. As we'd come out of the hotel, the bridge the tank sat on was just off to our right, the RWH on the other side of the river. Given the massive news coverage of that event at the time, it was a daily dose of surreality to actually be there.

Jeanne

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