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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
The payload bay was 60 feet long with a 15-foot diameter. Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, ...
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British man, Belarusian woman detained near Buran hangar 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.
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Russia's secret space shuttles have been sitting in plain sight for 22 years
On his blog, Mirebs asks "Why spend billions on ... space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the ...
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Eerie photos show an abandoned Soviet spacecraft originally built for the Cold War
His favorite place he's captured is a hangar in the steppe of Kazakhstan that holds two space shuttles from the USSR's once-active Buran program. The space shuttles have not been touched in nearly ...