Where Do Shuttles Go?
For those, who wondered “Where did all the three Russian shuttles go?”. One has been found on the backyard of some repairing shop.
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FIRST!
Quality work ^^
Seriously…
Barbarians.
Scavenging barbarians!
coming from a Hungarian. LOL
magyar pride! lmao
One of these black tiles costs more than a car.
Which one exactly?
Surely it would have been stripped if that was the case ?
Not really, you can’t use it in any other place.
yeah sure
http://www.buran-energia.com/boutique-shop/product_info.php?products_id=36&osCsid=3702749bd5102b1880a34690b3eaea86
and think about all the titanium.
you have to be a total fool to let it rot in your backyard
Thats such a shame
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only in russia!!!
arrivooo!!!!
Look at those cool shoes in the last picture! Is that what the Cosmonauts wore? If so, then it’s no wonder this piece of junk never flew in space!
LOL - well spotted detail
Actually it did, even twice! Check out
Those black tiles look like styrofoam?
Yep. This is protection from high-temperature plasma.
This project was designed for war in space and one launch was equal to 200 normal rocket launch.
right… because styrofoam doesn’t melt at high temperatures.
Don’t forget it was a piece of foam that spelled doom for Columbia…
it wasn’t foam, it was ice that was used to cool the fuel tanks.
[...] Este transbordador espacial Burán soviético parece que acabó en un desguace, según unas fotos que alguien envió al siempre interesante sitio de curiosidades English Russia: Where Do Shuttles Go? [...]
[...] Este transbordador espacial Burán soviético parece que acabó en un desguace, según unas fotos que alguien envió al siempre interesante sitio de curiosidades English Russia: Where Do Shuttles Go? [...]
[...] Este transbordador espacial Burán soviético parece que acabó en un desguace, según unas fotos que alguien envió al siempre interesante sitio de curiosidades English Russia: Where Do Shuttles Go? [...]
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[...] Hoy me ha llamado la atención una serie de fotos de uno de los Buran que aun sobreviven en Rusia (creo que es el modelo OK-TVA) y en concreto en Moscú. En dichas fotos se puede observar el sistema de losetas térmicas idéntico al de los americanos( estos llevan unas 23.000) pero dado el estado lamentable del transbordador soviético puede apreciarse como van “ancladas” al fuselaje, su disposición y parte de la estructura. Las fotos son del la web Englishrussia.com [...]
did it ever fly?
Another example of Russian achievement in high tech engineering.we wish someday this kind of space vehicle will fly again soon.”but i am sure,Space bureau replace cosmonaut`s shoes,in last pic”.
This shuttle is the Buran 2.01 model.
I’ve often wondered what the story is behind the fact this machine was similar to the U.S. Shuttle in appearance and operation. Was it a Soviet espionage success? Or just some Americans willing to sell secrets for a fast buck?
It is a result of the fact that the laws of physics are universal.
It would be interesting to know whether the Redneck would prove to be the same dangerous crap as US shuttles. As the project was stopped because of the lack of money, we shall never know.
I wonder what America will do for 5 years without the Shuttle while Russia has an assembly line for Progress ships and ESA is making good use of that? And ESA also has Jules Verne…
Don’t forget Buran did not need silly humans to fly it LOL
Even Robert Bigelow from my home of Las Vegas, of Bigelow Aerospace is using Russia to launch his space hotel from Kosmotras
Does anyone know where I can get good pictures of Kosmotras?
This is the 2.01 Buran shuttle.
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It’s shuttle 2.01, you can tell from the pattern of missing tiles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_2.01
http://www.buran.ru/htm/2-01.htm
you can even see it from space! here
those shoes are bitchin!
they aren’t build of ceramics?
Yes it did fly. The buran flew several unmanned orbits and came back to land on the airstrip without problems… It was a great achievement.
It seems it was never finished. Possibly it is only a model used for static testing etc?
BTW, “Buran” means “Redneck” in Czech
Well, those tiles does look like styrofoam with the small bubbles and all and you’d expect a lot more stuff inside… It is most likely only a modell for exercises or else.
Not that I would not like it in my backyard.
The tiles are basically foam. But they’re a ceramic glass foam (98% pure silica) and the color is just a coating. 95% of the volume of the tile is empty bubbles, which is what reduces heat transmission through the tile. Here’s a picture of the tiles from the US space shuttle:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06hz2My73B5d8/610x.jpg
Michael Burian anyone?
Too bad someone at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC doesn’t know about this. I wonder if they’d be interested in preserving it. Such a shame to let that thing go to waste.
You’re confusing cost with market value.
Several? Just one, actually, but it was quite successful.
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The next Russian hit movie, “Dude, wheres my Buran”. Also under working title of “Dr. Циолко́вскиy or: How I learned to stop caring, and hate the future of Russian Rocketry.”
Appolo and Soyuz accomplish similar tasks yet appear and operate differently.
Hit the nuke
unbelievable, I can just imagine how many plane prototypes and other military stuff are in this condition
So ummm Anyone living close to this wreck… could you slip over and get me a tile? It would go really well in my collection..
I’m not rich but I can send a few worthless American dollars for the effort..
Thanks
Zorgon
Yeah, only it costs here 160$ instead of 60 000 - 90 000$ because no one would buy it.
The Russian Suttle was never meant to actually go into space. They were built to prove a point to the world and the people of Russia, that Russia has the technology to build a space shuttle. Russia was runing out of money and toward the end, the goal was just to build ‘’something” that was a shuttle to parade in front of the world. Too bad they directly copied the 1976 Rockwell Space Shuttle design over in America, a copyright infringement, could have used a little more originality. The KGB wasn’t bringing back any more usefull information about shuttle building from Rockwell.
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actually it had a flight unmanned but it made a circle arrond the world and landed succesfully back all done by radio controll
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=1156786
Buran 2.01 on Google Earth
I saw one half a year ago in technische Museum Speyer, Germany. http://www.technik-museum.de/museum_speyer_deutsch.html
after october 2008, it will be available for the public.
I’d honestly turn it into a museum or a restaurant/hotel.
Blin tak zhalko. Vechno blin tak, nachnyt i ne dadelyut. Tyt chto, lave ne hvatilo?
Does anyone else find it depressing that such a triumphant shuttle in its time can be left as a hulking shell of its former glory - to crumble and decay ?
I find it very depressing, especially after seeing these monsters in the flesh.
How was it triumphant? Please explain. It flew 1 single time and now its in some ones back yard, now that’s fucking funny.
The USA has launched how many shuttles? We had one disaster and you people claim we are failures for this. 1 time out of how many successful shuttle launches? Thought so. You people fly one shuttle one time unmanned and you have accomplished some thing far better, hmmm what is it? Remember YOUR shuttle made one lousy trip around the planet then came home, um that’s nothing.
Yes be proud of your country for what it has done but remember this, there is NO comparing your country’s accomplishments to ours.
If the American shuttle disaster had happened in your country your government would have covered it up.
ONE BIG SHAME!!!
I am very sad of how we people care about our heritage and human craft and art, whatever nation we are.
Germans fight for their Buran for 7 years and they save it. Even its not their heritage.
Buran destroyed by colapsed roof in Kazachstan makes me cry. What a waste.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing it.
please, save the buran
may i buy the shuttle?