My Dad went over to the Soviet Union right before it collapsed and was able to purchase a whole bunch of Soviet equipment for his space museum…including a Soyuz he later sold to NASA they used for their Soyuz training in regards to the ISS. When he was over there they literally tried to sell him the Buran. It was this crazy time when everything in their space program not nailed down to a launch pad went up for sale to the highest bidder. Oligarchs gotta oligarch.

launching once isn't fully developed.

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That is so fucking weird. I never knew this knockoff of the US shuttle could achieve take off like an airplane. I thought it was just designed for a controlled glide landing.

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Ars Technica had a good article. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/breaking-into-the-buran-graveyard-aging-soviet-vehicles-still-impress/

The aerodynamic model, which is slightly smaller (still big) and flew like a plane, is in a museum in Germany.

shuttles are cool, but have you heard about the orbital weapons platforms?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)

Astonishment perhaps that they existed?

Wait till they find out about the VeGa and Venera programs!

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&gt;Does anyone have information about Russian space SHUTTLES?
Yes, a great many people know about Buran.

It wasn't a secret, unlike some of the soviet union's more exuberant missions (Polyot, for eg: or the Luna Korabyl's test flights: Kosmos 3 hundred and something)

I've two tiles from a Buran engineering spare, and had the pleasure of taking a ride in its simulator at Zhukovsky once.

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The Buran plays a rather starring role in Season 3 of the alternative history Space Race show “For all Mankind”

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They broke into his apartment and trashed all his drives after he did that, but the video was already uploaded.

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Incorrect. They launched one, it orbited the Earth and returned successfully. In 1988. The program ended because the Soviet Union fell.

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The program ended when the Soviet Union fell. There was no money.

Actually they put jets on it too, and flew it around like a plane LOL.

https://youtu.be/2ifMPiPpxKo

https://youtu.be/g_MjTjEXi7I

Absolutely not. It was not a knockoff. There were significant differences in the design & Energia was a completely new launch platform.

Check out the youtuber who broke into where the 2 shuttles are being stored.

https://youtu.be/0fZ-r5Qe3tM