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Baikonur Cosmodrome Roof Collapses
mrbrown1602 writes: "The roof of the 260-foot-tall Baikonur Cosmodrome collapsed today in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The hangar, used to store the Buran space shuttle (Russia's abandoned shuttle program), was built in the 1960s and used for the Soviet moon program. Could this delay the Buran auction? More can be found at Yahoo!."
Oh dear.
Baikonur looks like an enormous complex. Which of the dozens of buildings was it?
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Could this delay the Buran auction?
No, Timothy, it just killed eight people. I imagine most of them didn't read slashdot, so it's easy to understand why you don't give a fuck.
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Ouch. I would be curious to see a detailed structual analysis. IF anyone has ever been to Moffet Field in California, those are big, similar hangars for blimps though. What caused the collapse specifically? I am curious
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1) I wasn't aware that any Russian shuttle, let alone Buran itself was being auctioned - just did a search on /. and no sight of an article about it, except the one from mid last year when they auctioned a scaled static tester.
2) The Yahoo article says a shuttle of the type was in the hanger at the time of the incident, but doesn't say if it was Buran or not, I had a feeling Buran was in a covered but not enclosed storage.
3) People died in this, that's a little more important than any shuttle.
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If I remember correctly, Bike was where Yuri Gagarin lifted off to do the first human orbit in space. Kinda sad to see how run down the place has become...must be rather depressing working there these days.
spare a thought for the techs that died
And there was an article on Slashdot about it too... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/10/131520 0&mode=thread
> It was unlikely any of the workers could have survived the fall
[...]
> Russia would not allow Kazakh rescuers to approach the building
[...]
> There was no information about the condition of the eight workers, he said
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> A special Russian rescue team left Moscow for Baikonur [...]
> The plane was to arrive three hours later, or 13 hours after the accident took place.
They don't know what happend to the construction crew. If someone was lucky enough to survive the accident and is lying badly injured in the rubble now he has to wait for 13 hours because of Russian politics.
Reminds me of the Kursk disaster..