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Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:00AM from the wipe-away-a-single-tear dept.

gruenz noted the somewhat sad photo slideshow showing what appears to be the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran, lying in a Moscow suburb junk heap. Of course I don't read Russian, so it might also be a carnival ride rusting.

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Not News by WED+Fan · 2010-09-28 01:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

I remember seeing pictures of Buran on the junk heap about 10 years ago. Why is this news today?

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Which one is it? by hcdejong · 2010-09-28 01:18 · Score: 4, Interesting

This page contains a list of the Buran airframes and their locations. This page has a photo of the OK-1K2 unfinished orbiter, this is the closest match to the photos shown in TFA. Aerospaceweb lists this orbiter as having been sold to the Technikmuseum Speyer in 2004, but I've recently been there and they have the OK-GLI atmospheric test bed on display, not OK-1K2.