The fate of the space Shuttle, the Soviet Union’s “Buran” is one of the saddest in the history of the aerospace industry.
After NASA started to work on my creation of my shuttles in the early 1970-ies, the USSR planned own program Orbiter, terribly similar to the “Buran”. However, this idea was never realized.
“During his visit to Russia and Kazakhstan in 2014, one of the models of “Buran” was exhibited in Moscow, and the second was at the Museum at the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is the platform, which launched Yuri Gagarin half a century ago. This spaceport was the hangar, where, according to rumors, there were other “Storms”. We decided to go there again at night and see what is behind this huge hangar. We shot a video which was uploaded to YouTube,” says one of the guys who were in the hangar….
Russian officials are proud of the program “Buran”, but why abandoned vehicles rotting away? Regardless of whether this was an incredibly daring RAID or a paid trip, the video shows amazing views inside the hangar and space vehicles.
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