Remembering Buran - Soviet Russia`s Shuttle that launched only once, today, in 1988.
In Soviet Russia …
… the prototype space shuttle Buran launches once, and only once, on November 15, 1988, and then your communist republic collapses and the spacecraft is destroyed and lost to the annals of history and grainy YouTube videos.
(video via Andrej Rusavin)
No idea the Soviets had a space shuttle!
How sad that the craft itself was destroyed due to neglect.
What’s always made me sad about the Enerigia/Buran system is how it was better in so many ways (at least on paper) from...
- Soviet Russia`s Shuttle that launched