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"Jim Oberg" wrote:

Just got this alert from a friend -- a LOT
of unpublished Polyus images at
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...ic.php?t=30510

This was the bird that the Soviets military built and planned
to launch without telling Gorbachev -- he found out, and ordered the
rocket test to proceed but the payload to not be activated.

And as some of the comments on the page say, a lot of those photos,
especially the one with the Energia at 45 degrees, could have come
straight out of a Thunderbirds episode.

Anthony