Comments for "Who Stole the Space Shuttle Plans ?" Video at VideoSift.com

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:41:34 -0700

It was the Commies.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:45:35 -0700

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Nasa, America, Space, Shuttle' to 'NASA, America, Space, Shuttle, Soviet Union, VKK, Buran, launch' - edited by MarineGunrock

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:49:21 -0700

And *nochannel, cause Rembar will have a fit if he sees this in his channel. It's definitely *vintage and *spacy though. I suppose that *geeks will know about this too. After all, I did.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:49:22 -0700

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By DrPawn

DrPawn (http://www.videosift.com/member/DrPawn) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:07:38 -0700

I thought it was interesting that they actually stole the plans and built one. Guess only me and you thought so though becuase it got a grand total of 2 votes :*. Ill never figure out their voting taste around here.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:11:14 -0700

I don't think the plans were stolen, just mimicked. They did a pretty good job too, their external fuel tank is reusable; ours is not.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:53:02 -0700

Discarding this video. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 4 days.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:54:53 -0700

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:54:53 -0700

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, October 25th, 2007 8:43pm PDT - promote requested by MarineGunrock.

By kulpims

kulpims (http://www.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:09:29 -0700

http://www.videosift.com/video/Buran-Energia-Russian-space-shuttle

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:22 -0700

Yeah, they didn't steal the plans... geeze

They are different, and the scientists wanted to build a smaller craft, but the powers that be wanted to ensure that the USSR looked to be as powerful as the US and so ended up with this near identical design.

Their test craft, the OK-GLI was actually better than the US one, because it could take off under its own power rather than being carried up by an aircraft.

It's fascinating, and quite sad that so much money was spent on the venture, only for it to have ONE... one UNMANNED flight into orbit before being canceled.

That's an obscene use of money right there. (Although I'd much rather have countries spending money on failed space programs than war... but that's just me)

This does bring back memories though, I remember getting up early (in Australia) to see the first Space Shuttle launch (Columbia) in... erm ahh, there we are, 1981... It was a beautiful thing

And I do remember the stuff about the Soviet program, and how very, very similar, and yet slightly different and odd it looked.

So, thanks for this

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:17:36 -0700

Bloody fascinating. The soviets were kind of funny if you distill the cold war era power players down to playground archetypes. The soviet kid is big and tough but has shitty clothes and is always trying to hard to be cool by imitating what the agressive little rich kid representing the USA does. During the cold war, that is.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:53:02 -0700

Moving this video to DrPawn's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

By Norsuelefantti

Norsuelefantti (http://www.videosift.com/member/Norsuelefantti) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:32:15 -0700

*engineering

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:32:15 -0700

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by Norsuelefantti.