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On 12th April, 1961, a spacehip "Vostok" with a pilot-cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin aboard made its first flight into space. "Vostok" was launched from the space launching site

"Baikonur", at 9:07 of Moscow time. The space ship made a single circle around the Earth and landed at 10:55 near Smelovka village, the Saratov region.

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Welcome to the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow that

demonstrates the progress of Russian and Soviet technology.

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Do you remember the biggest fail of MAKS show this year? Yes, it was connected to Buran. This one is located in

a specially built aircraft shed in a museum in Speyer, Germany. Let's see how it's treated abroad.

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Here are photos of a technological layout of the orbital aircraft

OK-MT in the assembly and refueling building in Baikonur.

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After several years of rotting in the open air on docks in Tushino, the spacecraft Buran will be restored, then demonstrated at the air show MAKS-2013. Recently

the "Buran" was brought from Tushino to Zhukovsky, where it will be restored and displayed. So let's look at the pride of the Soviet space industry.

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Every USSR citizen was proud of the country's space exploration program. One of the top Soviet spaceships, called "Buran",

could deliver weapons of mass destruction to the orbit. Discover the destiny of such spacecrafts in today's Russia.