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  1. Re:Hope for Smithsonian by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 1 · on Discovery Heads Into Retirement

    The one at Speyer is the atmospheric test bed, not the orbiter, same as Enterprise was. They have unit OK-GLI which is named "Buran aerodynamic analogue" on Wikipedia.

    http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran

  2. Info on OK-GLI available on the museum website by JerryP · · Score: 1 · on Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

    Here is the website for the airframe on display in Speyer. The vehicle was discovered in Bahrain by the director of the museum and transported to Germany a couple of years ago. The (german-language) audio comment of the embedded video mentions that it is the only remaining Buran that actually was flying, if only for tests of the automated landing system.

  3. Buran in Germany- by gatzke · · Score: 1 · on Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

    There is a Buran in Germany at the Speyer Technik museum.

    http://blog.flightstory.net/681/russian-space-shuttle-buran-transported-to-german-museum/
    http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/1327
    http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en

    They have two awesome sister technical museums near Frankfurt/Stuttgart. Sinsheim has planes (both supersonic passenger planes) and the Buran is at the Speyer along with more space stuff. Both have a good amount of military stuff and tons of autos. Trains. Model trains. Chainsaws. Sewing machines. Steam Engines. Automatic organs. Motorcycles. A lot of the planes are set up so you can crawl around in them, and you can get very close to a lot of the cars.

    Also, they are simple museums, not a lot of glitz or reading. Here is a car, model, year. Here are some more.

    However, the best part may be the rides. Germans have a different sense of liability. They have crazy rides that are not supervised, very much buyer beware. Six story steel tube slides. Self loading roller coasters and go-carts. The best was a boat jump thing that winches you up a include, then drops you down a rail into a pool. Awesome fun.

  4. Buran in Germany- by gatzke · · Score: 1 · on Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

    There is a Buran in Germany at the Speyer Technik museum.

    http://blog.flightstory.net/681/russian-space-shuttle-buran-transported-to-german-museum/
    http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/1327
    http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en

    They have two awesome sister technical museums near Frankfurt/Stuttgart. Sinsheim has planes (both supersonic passenger planes) and the Buran is at the Speyer along with more space stuff. Both have a good amount of military stuff and tons of autos. Trains. Model trains. Chainsaws. Sewing machines. Steam Engines. Automatic organs. Motorcycles. A lot of the planes are set up so you can crawl around in them, and you can get very close to a lot of the cars.

    Also, they are simple museums, not a lot of glitz or reading. Here is a car, model, year. Here are some more.

    However, the best part may be the rides. Germans have a different sense of liability. They have crazy rides that are not supervised, very much buyer beware. Six story steel tube slides. Self loading roller coasters and go-carts. The best was a boat jump thing that winches you up a include, then drops you down a rail into a pool. Awesome fun.

  5. Buran flight test article at Technikmuseum Speyer by mene · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines

    The perfect place for Enterprise might be next to the Buran at http://speyer.technik-museum.de/exhibits/spaceshuttle-buran/sp_610.html. At http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/27, they have both a Russian Tupolev TU-144 and an Air France CONCORDE on display.

  6. Buran flight test article at Technikmuseum Speyer by mene · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines

    The perfect place for Enterprise might be next to the Buran at http://speyer.technik-museum.de/exhibits/spaceshuttle-buran/sp_610.html. At http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/27, they have both a Russian Tupolev TU-144 and an Air France CONCORDE on display.

  7. Re:More than one Buran out there... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines

    A worthy place for Enterprise might be next to the Buran at the http://speyer.technik-museum.de/exhibits/spaceshuttle-buran/sp_610.html(Germany). At Sinsheim http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/27, they already have a Russian Tupolev TU-144 and an Air France CONCORDE on display.

  8. Re:More than one Buran out there... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines

    A worthy place for Enterprise might be next to the Buran at the http://speyer.technik-museum.de/exhibits/spaceshuttle-buran/sp_610.html(Germany). At Sinsheim http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/node/27, they already have a Russian Tupolev TU-144 and an Air France CONCORDE on display.

  9. Unite it with the Buran! by mattMad · · Score: 1 · on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines

    How about uniting one with a Buran:
    http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/649
    Admitted, the cost of transporting it to Germany might be significant...

  10. Retirement Residence for the Buran (and friends) by D4C5CE · · Score: 1 · on Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle
    Yeah, the Buran was fully completed and in some ways technologically superior to the US space shuttle But leave it to the Russians...they spent all the money to develop it, didn't do much of anything with it and now one is rotting somewhere in Kazakstan, and another was found in the middle of a desert somewhere by a bunch of German journalists.
    ...where it has been purchased and is expected to come on display at the twin sites of a not-so-small "museum" in the Heidelberg-Karlsruhe area this year, next to other "little" exhibits such as an Antonov AN-22, a Boeing 747 and a Concorde, also along with its Russian knockoff, the Tupolev TU-144. Now all they need for the perfect theme park with a zero-G space flight experience would be a working high-efficiency implementation of another alleged marvel of Russian engineering, known as the Podkletnov effect - so if you too happen to have successfully tinkered with gravity-defying superconductors in your garage, do give them a call. ;-))