Buran Orbiter The BURAN orbiter is the first reusable manned space vehicle in our country. The BURAN orbiter is the space airplane which may descent from an orbit and land to an airdrome. The BURAN is our first vehicle capable not only to put pay-loads into Space, but also to provide their orbit maintenance and repair as well as return to the Earth. The BURAN predecessors could execute only ...

By Alexei Gretchikhine (agretch@aeroweb.lucia.it) Copyright Russian Aviation Page, 1997. In summer 1994 I had a chance to inspect Buran (boo-ruhn) hulk at its final destination in Gorky Park, Moscow. The structural prototype of the space shuttle was shipped by barge by Moscow river from Tushino were it was in storage after structural testing. The prototype was to become a space theme cafe ...

Buran Soviet Space Shuttle The Russian Shuttle Buran ( Snowstorm in Russian) was authorized in 1976 in response to the United States Space Shuttle program. Building of the shuttles began in 1980, with the first full-scale Aero-Buran rolling out in 1984. It was launched by Energia LV. Test Flights The first suborbital test flight of a scale model of Buran took place in July 1983. There were five ...

Home - e i - i - help english - russian The VSM: Energia and Buran Russian space shuttle Buran Buran Energia-Buran on the transporter Energia with Buran Energia with Polyus Polyus (a.k.a. Skif-DM) Energia-M Energia-Buran photos from Alexander Krasnikov's space site, photographed by Andrey Lavrentiev : ...

Baikonur - June 30, 2001 - Russia plans to reassert itself as a major power in space by resurrecting the Buran space shuttle, a relic of the Soviet era. It will pay for the development programme in part by taking more space tourists like Dennis Tito up to the space station.

THE RUSSIAN BURAN Here you can change the color of the background start up, yellow, orange, green Not many know this but the Russians have a space shuttle them selves, it's name is Buran. The Russians watched the American space program and realized that they to needed a space shuttle. As you can see it looks very much like the American shuttle and the Russians admit borrowing the blueprints. But ...