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While this may look like an ordinary piggyback ride of a U.S. space shuttle, it isn't. It's actually the Soviet Union's version of the space shuttle atop a Mria AN-225 jet transport on its way to an airshow Wednesday at Le Bourget surburban airport outside Paris. The Soviet's shuttle, named Buran, goes on display at the airshow Thursday.

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