#buran — Public Fediverse posts
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The #Buran also had emergency ejection seats 💺 for all crew members (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 1986 and the #Columbia in 2003 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/
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On 15 Nov 1988, 37 years ago, the #Soviet #space #shuttle #Buran made its first and only flight. In 2013, I found an interesting piece of #history of the #ColdWar and wrote why Buran looked like a copy of the US Shuttle. (TL;DR: arms race/paranoia.) #HistSciTech jmkorhonen.net/2013/11/18/s...
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Infiltration of the #Baikonur #Cosmodrome and its abandoned parts with a #rocket and two #SpaceShuttles. Shot in 📆 2018 https://www.jonk-photography.com/en/le-monde-perdu/baikonour
Two #Buran are rotting away in an abandoned hangar in another part of the sprawling Baikonur complex. Over the years, local scavengers have snuck into the hangar to harvest valuable metals and electronics. The site has also been targeted by international #adventurers seeking a glimpse at Soviet #SpaceHistory. Among them is #French photographer #Jonk https://www.wired.com/story/jonk-buran-photo-gallery
Picture : #SpaceShuttle Buran at the Technik #Museum #Speyer 🇩🇪 https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Technik+Museum+Speyer&point=Technik+Museum+Speyer&layer=Esri+Satellite :ccby: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Buran_spacecraft_(3245283588).jpg
