SUN STREAK PROJECT 5196 SESSION NUMBER: 01 SOLO VIEWER: 052

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This document is a summary of a session from the CIA's Stargate program, specifically from Project Sun Streak. The session took place on March 26, 1990, and was focused on describing the target site, which was a Soviet Shuttle Launch. The viewer, identified as 052, worked solo and had encrypted coordinates. The session didn't mention any physical difficulties and concluded with an evaluation of 3. There is no information provided on the methodology or any additional comments.

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SECRET/NOFORN 
PROJECT SUN STREAK 
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED 
PROJECT NUMBER: 
5196 (Tng) 
SESSION NUMBER: 
1 
DATE OF SESSION: 
26 MAR 90 
DATE OF REPORT: 
26 MAR 90 
START: 
1043 
END: 
1102 
METHODOLOGY: 
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VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 
052 
1. (S/SK) MISSION: To describe the target si,te (Soviet Shuttle Launch) 
in Stage 3 terminology, working solo. 
2. (S/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Encrypted coordinates?only. 
3. (S/SK) COMMENTS: No Physical IncleMencies. 052 "doorknobbed" the 
site very strongly throughout most of the session, finally settling onto 
the main shape gestalts in Stage 3. 
4. (s/sr) EVALUATION: 3 
5. (3/BK) SEARCH EVALUATION: N/A 
MONITOR: 018 
HANDLE VIA  SKEET CHANNELS ONLY 
SECRET/NOFORN 
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A24 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1988 ? 
Soviets Launch Shuttle 
For 2 Unmanned Orbits 
A picture of the gleaming black-
and-white Buran, which outwardly 
looks remarkably similar to the U.S. 
space shuttle Discovery, was pub-
lished by the Communist Party 
newspaper Pravda yesterday. The 
newspaper said that the Energia 
rocket was programmed to send the 
shuttle back to earth if one of its en-
gines failed. 
Unlike Discovery, which made a 
four-day manned flight in Septem-
ber following the 32-month period 
of inactivity caused by the Challeng-
er disaster in January 1986, Buran 
is not equipped with its own booster 
rockets. It has only small engines, 
used for steering in space. 
Pravda predicted that the most 
difficult part of the operation would 
be bringing the shuttle safely back 
to Earth. The shuttle will land on a 
special landing strip made out of re-
inforced concrete that is nearly as 
wide as a football field. The U.S. 
program has not included launch of 
an unmanned shuttle. 
A successful testing of Buran 
could help the Soviets in their am-
bitious program for the construc-
tion of space stations and space 
launching pads for the exploration 
of other planets. 
On Saturday, cosmonauts Vladi-
mir Titov and Musa Manarov broke 
the world space endurance record 
by remaining on board the orbiting 
Mir space station complex for 326 
lays. 
? The Soviet space program has, 
wever, also experienced several 
.gnificant setbacks in recent 
months. In September, the crew 
aboard a joint Soviet-Afghan mis-
sion to the Mir station was stranded 
smarooned in space for a day be-
cause of a failure in the computer-
powered landing systems of their 
Soyuz-TM module. 
In Washington, staff writer Kathy 
Sawyer reported: 
Americans experts who study the 
Soviet space program have ex-
pressed surprise at what they per-
ceive as a major risk the Soviets ap-
pear to be taking with this launch. 
"They have 10 or 12 major wick-
ets?major new things?they've 
got to get through on this mission," 
said author James Oberg, who had 
predicted the Soviets would first fly 
a mock-up or "shell" of a shuttle be-
fore risking a fully equipped model. 
The launch phase could be par-
ticularly risky, experts said, be-
cause this will be only the second 
operation of the giant Energia 
booster. 
Also, some observers believe it 
may not be possible to throttle the 
Soviet booster engines. 
Unlike the American shuttle en-
gines, which may be throttled, the 
Soviet shuttle may have to charge 
through the period of maximum 
stress at full throttle, experts said. 
The Soviets have little experi-
ence with hypersonic flight. 
The experts added that during 
the period of the shuttle's reentry 
to earth the craft may travel up to 
25 times the speed of sound. 
They said the craft's onboard 
computers must respond correctly 
and unaided to the forces the shut-
tle encounters. 
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Soviet shuttle awaits launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia. 
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