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The Piece of a Shuttle

Posted on July 3, 2009 by


Russian shuttle buran piece

There is a piece of what was before a glorious Russian shuttle “Buran”, staying in front of one of the Moscow hospitals. It hasn’t been placed there as a monument or something. People who know its history tell that once when the Soviet Union collapsed they sold much of high-technology costly hardware for just some pennies to people who didn’t even know what to do with all this.

For example, this head module of Buran shuttle in some mysterious way appeared in ownership of the hospital. They couldn’t find a better use for it to make a pressure chamber. Then they found out that they have not enough funds to make such chamber, so, they decided, the best use of this piece of space relic is to sell it for scrap metal.

Russian shuttle buran piece 2

But then again they found out that even scrap metal services would cost them some money they didn’t want to spend.

Russian shuttle buran piece 3

So the capsule stayed abandoned just in front of the hospital. They still agreed for some expense though – they have bough a big padlock and locked the unit from curious strangers.

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12 Responses to “The Piece of a Shuttle”

  1. Lada says:
    July 3, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Nice pictures, where is that hospital?

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  2. a says:
    July 3, 2009 at 10:40 am

    doesnt look like buran

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  3. Keroro says:
    July 3, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Well, it’s actually looks like buran. Just attach composite cone to the nose (it’s a standard place for radar antenna, and since metal reflects radio-waves it’s usualy made of composite material and detachable).

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  4. ll Uncool J says:
    July 3, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Yo! That ain’t nothing!

    I got 50 Cent’s Cadillac up in my house. I turned it into a clothes washing machine! Check it!

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  5. Indy75 says:
    July 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    It better looks than Buran in Gorky park. Shame such a beautiful piece of Soviet/American technology is now rusting as a cheap 3D cinema…
    Like Lada : which hospital ?

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  6. boriska says:
    July 3, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Что это за гравицапа?

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  7. Javox says:
    July 24, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    wowww sooo cooll where do i can get one from my front garden? hahahaha

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  8. Space enthusiast says:
    September 20, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    I’ll pay postage if they want to get rid of it. How much to Australia, I wonder…

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