He contemplated it intensively and then said, ‘We are not country bumpkins here. The news disturbed Leonid Illyich very much. It is capable, through a side maneuver, of changing its orbit in such a way that it would find itself at the right moment right over Moscow, possibly with dangerous cargo. “Smirnov, from VPK, in his regular report to Brezhnev, mentioned at the end of his report: the Americans are intensively working on a winged space vehicle,” according to a 1991 history of the program printed in “Kuranty,” a Moscow magazine.
And that, according to reports revealed years later, is exactly what Smirnov did. It was to the great benefit of the VPK - like its private U.S. The VPK was the body that directed not only the military projects but also laid out strategies for obtaining the technologies. Vladimir Smirnov, head of the Soviet Union’s powerful Military-Industrial Commission, or VPK, was laying out priorities for the next year to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The story begins in 1974 with a secret meeting at the Kremlin. It may also be the first recorded example of spying online. The story of the Soviet shuttle is really the story of the competition between the two great space powers in microcosm, complete with Cold War intrigue and paranoia, mirror-image competition and all manner of spies, both human and electronic. In fact, the first linkup between the Mir and the shuttle Atlantis in 1995 used the very system the Russians designed for their own shuttle. version, designing a Mir linkup for Atlantis and other U.S. But because the Soviet craft was so similar to the U.S. That all-Soviet linkup never took place, and the Soviet shuttle was finally abandoned in 1994. Although the Soviet shuttle flew only once in 1990, it was planned in part as a space ferry to link up with Mir.
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