Wheres Russias space shuttle?
What happened to the Russian space shuttle? Chris Scott, Helden Bridge, W. Yorkshire, U.K. The Russian space shuttle is called Buran. Thirteen years ago, the great Energia carrier rocket launched Buran from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It made two revolutions around the globe before landing. Our space-shuttle specialists say it was far superior in many ways to the U.S. shuttle, but the program had to fold because of financial difficulties. They worked out a system, M.A.K.S., which had no equal in the world. It made launching cargoes into orbit five to 10 times cheaper than it cost their foreign opposite number. Here again, money was the problem. There were many Burans. Today one is standing idle at the Baikonur cosmodrome. A copy is on show at Gorky Park in Moscow. Sad, but true. How many artists work for the Moscow Circus? Jacques Augustin, Rosny-Sous-Bois, France. There is an old and a new Moscow Circus. The old circus last year marked its 120th anniversary. At the old circus, aerial acr
