"Dave O'Neill" dave @ NOSPAM atomicrazor . com wrote:

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I think it's more important to note that it was possible to knock the
station out of position by pressing two buttons in the Soyuz at once. The
Russians clearly build a very different sort of junk.

They build functional kit.

And, by those standards, so is the Shuttle.

D.
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