Buran-Energia.com

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PistolPete

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Have you guys seen this site yet?<br /><br />Buran-Energia.com<br /><br />It's got a lot of details and a lot of pictures. It's like the Russian side of Buran.ru, but it's in English (albeit that it's a French site translated into English)<br /><br />Also, it has a lot of pictures of the Hangar 112 collapse that destroyed the Buran. Unlike most places that only show you a few pictures from the empty half of the hangar, this one actually shows the destroyed Energia/Bruan stack.<br /><br /><font color="yellow">*CAUTION*</font>This site also has a picture of one of the bodies of the workers that died in the roof collapse. Why? I don't know.<br /><br />Despite this, it's a very good site. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>
 
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davf

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This is great! Thanks!!!<br /><br />On a similar note.. has anyone here ever mailed away for the Buran CDs that are for sale on the buran.ru website? Have they actually arrived?
 
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CalliArcale

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Oh dear. There goes my productivity. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Thanks for sharing, PistolPete! I will definitely add that to my bookmarks for Russian spaceflight. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
 
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galactichalo

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This is the rocket that could have got the Ruskies to Mars, they had clocked up record duration manned missions, and the red planet was next in their sights.<br /><br />It all ended with the fall of the USSR
 
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docm

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Cool as they may have been I'm sure most of those in eastern Europe would say "fair trade" now that they're in the EU. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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publiusr

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Energiya had to compete with the massive Baikal-Amur Mainline and the completion of the full electrification of the Trans-Siberian railway--completed in 2002 after 74 years of work--thats what bankrupted them...<br /><br />--that and a costly war of occupation fighting a stupid war that got thousands of their soldiers killed for nothing.<br /><br /><br />Sounds familiar... <br />
 
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jamie_young

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It's a good site. Shame Buran only had one flight. Unmanned orbiters are interesting!
 
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