Buran. The Soviet Space Shuttle

In our recent publications we’ve told about the world’s heaviest and largest jet Antonov or AN-225 that was designed for the Soviet space program in 1988 and able to airlift the Energia rocket’s boosters and Buran about which we’ve told as well.

On the next photos one can see the complete process of launching Buran into the space orbit.

And here you can find a photo session from Ukrainian site about what is now with Buran.

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