Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain?

Posted by michael on Friday September 24, 2004 @02:19AM from the grain-of-salt dept.

An anonymous reader writes "German news source Spiegel are reporting (english babelfish translation) that some TV journalists have found a seemingly abandoned Russian space shuttle in the Persian Gulf. It looks like it could be the atmospheric test demonstrator Buran OK-GLI which was in Sydney, Australia. Pictures here (external) and here (internal). Boy, what I would give to be able to sit in that seat and flip those switches!" Another reader, grm_wnr writes "German tabloid newspaper Bild reports that a russian Buran shuttle has been found in the Bahrain desert. Here is the story (in german, Google translation here). What's funny is that noone knows how it ended up there. At least the fate of one of the four Buran prototypes is now confirmed." There is not much confirmation on this, outside of a few pictures... let the reader beware.

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Re:Funny... by JaffaKREE · 2004-09-24 02:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It actually looks like the US space shuttle - if it were made out of legos.
Nie by essreenim · 2004-09-24 02:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ze spaze shootel izt shid. uze ze roked.
In Maoist China... by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2004-09-24 03:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Confucius say "Ack..." *dies*. Because Confucianism is counter-revolutionary superstition!
Re:Grain of Salt by kkovach · 2004-09-24 03:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is today September Fools Day in Germany?

- Kevin

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