Space Shuttle Buran First (and final) Landing Replay Cameras

[lucabrasi1337]

I flew these during the war.

[maisler]

@lucabrasi1337 remember my first beer

[TupolevTech]

design rip-offski

[haitiano1982]

russians spy's at their best!

[Crazyboy123232]

and we have got it in a german museum now :D

[DoktorVallu]

WTF fully automatic?? Soviet space program was the best one..

[GuyFawkes40]

You know...if we didn't have to put up with warmongering government officials, we'd have a lot more money to spend on good things...like NASA.

[zloychechen5150]

@GuyFawkes40 i doubt that after 1960 or so anyone in the soviet govt had even a shadow of intent to ATTACK the states.

[zloychechen5150]

@GuyFawkes40 except for the baldy, but there were loads of people cleverer than him out there.

[GuyFawkes40]

Most people are not familiar with the fact that each US space shuttle launch cost over 1 billion dollars.! And that 's just to get it up. That doesn't include any payload costs. In a perfect world, NASA would get all the funding it needs to continue the shuttle program. But this is not a perfect world. We have to deal with idiots like Bush and Obama. Did you know that the US government spends more on air conditioning for the US troops than on the entire NASA budget.! That's F'd up!

[MrSrgj]

Space Shuttle "Buran" is the first unmanned space shuttle in the world.

[MrPPPAAAVVVEEELLL]

Unique.

[RomelioSanzz]

That MiG-25 was too close!!!!

[wollin20]

This space shuttle system, apparently similar to the US programme and yet quite different (no rocket on the Buran, and fully automatic) worked just once, but perfectly. The difference is basically that the almost bankrupt USSR abandonned this option after this technological show off, just because it is basically a waste of money. The NASA needed another 23 years to accept this fact.

[TheATSA]

@wollin20 I think you're right

[my235]

@wollin20 Not really a waste of money seeing as so much tech has come out of the shuttle program.

[wollin20]

@my235 Of course, but it could have been spent in a more efficient way. For the same price, we could have gained these technologies AND explore far better the solar system with robots. We have to admit that humans in space are pointless for science in a time in which fast developping robots have far better senses and reliability than humans who need an incredible (and very expensive) engineering life support in an hostile environment. I support though manned missions because they make us dream.

[yummmm11]

@wollin20 space exploration isnt a waste of money

[Luchingador]

now that USA space program is on hold we counld have use this.. shame

[NoAngel7399]

Well, since it was an unmanned landing, that is probably why it was so rough?

[TheATSA]

@NoAngel7399 Not so rough but manual landing is softer. In the vid «Буран» №0.02 (БТС-002, ОК-ГЛИ) there are many manual landings.

[rivendell9999]

There seems to be more than one landing (not just different angles from the same landing). The first landing appears to be a bit "hard" (heck, it's almost a crash land:) )and the orbiter veers left on runway after touchdown, the others seem picture-perfect. If there was only one flight, how could it have landed twice? :). Maybe a previous (glide-only) test flight, launching from an aircraft.

[TheATSA]

@rivendell9999 Really it's one landing. One of replays can appears to be a hard 'cause replay of view from the back is 2 time faster (just compare the time from touchdown to shute deployment with others cameras views). Test flight for this craft is just impossible, because it doesn't have any engines (except APU).

If you will watch landings closely, you'll see that shuttle corrects a little bit his trajectory.

[1968ussr]

Помню, что когда смотрел это по телевизору, было такое хорошее чувство гордости за свою страну. И в голове не укладывалось, что там нет пилота, всё в автоматическом режиме.