The payload bay was 60 feet long with a 15-foot diameter. Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and ...

where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle program lie in silent testimony to a once-vibrant era of space exploration. Within the MZK hangar, the nearly completed Ptichka orbiter ...