Tag: Buran
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Buran shuttle graffiti highlights concern for space history, need for museum ownership & care
After the latest incident at Baikonur where a group of street artists painted graffiti on the Buran 1.02 space shuttle, named Burya, Roscosmos expressed its concern about the fate of the unique remnants of the Energia-Buran program stored at the spaceport and has expressed a desire to discuss this issue at the next meeting of…
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Remembering Buran – The Shuttle’s Estranged Soviet Cousin
Under a veil of secrecy, the Soviet Space Shuttle “Buran” launched on her maiden mission 25 years ago. It was to be her only flight in space, with the program mothballed in 1993, following the dissolution of the USSR. She was destroyed during the collapse of her hanger roof at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2002. Buran: Developed…