But few places were more difficult to access than the Buran hangar. For one thing, Baikonur is still an active spaceport—the Russian space program leases the site from Kazakhstan for around $115 ...

The Buran orbiter that made the initial three-hour flight was destroyed in 2002, when the roof of the hangar where it was stored in Kazakhstan collapsed. Like the United States, the Soviet Union ...

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 ...

Buran was destroyed in 2002 when the hangar housing it collapsed. All images save the one of the hangar wreckage are from Ralph Mirebs’ livejournal page, and there are a lot more images that I ...

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The first Buran shuttle made just a single, unpiloted flight to orbit in 1988. However, this vehicle was destroyed in 2002 after the roof of the hangar where it was stored at the Baikonur ...

At the base of the hangar are two unused Buran shuttles, named Burya and OK-MT. Only five spaceplanes have successfully flown to space, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and safely landed.

In the photos below, you can see two unused, debris-covered Buran shuttles in the hangar. This still amazing superstructure was originally built for the assembly of the Soviet N1 moon rocket ...

The spacecraft that actually flew to space was destroyed in a Baikonur hangar roof collapse in 2002, but one surviving Buran flight unit and a mock-up of the spacecraft remain at Baikonur.

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. A British man and a Belarusian woman have been detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Site 112, the Buran facility, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.