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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American ... Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an Energia rocket, and performed ...
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White Elephant
Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... He recalls watching the Buran’s flawless launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. November 15, 1988, dawned with a storm front from ...
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Head of Soviet space shuttle program dies aged 89
The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive ... reaching 1.3 billion rubles by 1985. The first launch of the Energiya rocket took place on May ...
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New super-heavy space rocket to be less costly to make than Energia to recreate
Energia’s first launch was from the Baikonur space site ... It was capable of propelling into near-Earth orbits not only the Buran space shuttle, but any other payload having a mass of 100 ...
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Russia's secret space shuttles have been sitting in plain sight for 22 years
space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.