re tsniimach enterprise in article c hv ng cs cmu edu flb flb optiplan fi f baube tm writes from wales larrison ofa fidonet org tsniimach enterprise is described as a ex military establishment focusing on aerodynamics and thermal protection of spacecraft and which has participated in the development of the buran shuttle system they are located near the npo energia facility in kaliningrad outside of moscow if this facility is in kaliningrad this is not near moscow correction and some more info the kaliningrad that mr larrison writes about is indeed near moscow i ve read that it may also be known by the name podlipk and is a short distance from zvezdny gorodok star city and the cosmonaut training center there i read that the tsniimach central scientific research institute of machine building est enterprise was also responsible for creating the nkik ground command and measurement complex including the kaliningrad flight control center which has controlled all soviet russian manned spaceflights since its completion in however it appears to have been a part of the ministry of general machine building which was not part of the military ministry of defense but would have been a part of the military industrial complex dennis newkirk dennisn ecs comm mot com motorola land mobile products sector schaumburg il
