From M. Proszynski
Warsaw
Ambulances are usually labelled in the front “in reverse”, so that the label
could easily be read when seen in the rear-view mirror of a vehicle ahead of the
ambulance. So let me ask a question. Who was to go ahead of Buran, the Russian
space shuttle, on its maiden (and only?) flight?
It is not really necessary to read Russian to find out that the label on the
rocket to which Buran is mounted (Technology, 9 November, p 23) is a mirror
image of the actual name (“Energia”). So the question remains: who was to read
it in its rear-view mirror. Martians?
The picture was indeed erroneously printed in reverse—Ed
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