Buran Space Shuttle Program

(in russian)

*Energia-Buran system rollout to launch pad
*U.S. STS and Soviet Buran Shuttle Launch comparison
*Energia Data
*OK-GLI flight test and land problem with landing gear
*Baikal rollout

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• buran
• space
• shuttle
• program
• energia
• rocket
• launch
• ok-gli
• test

[Plutoplatter]

Hey Obama, cut it out. It's obvious you are disguising yourself here as Bahama, to advance your anti-America goals. Since you want to wipe out all hard science programs in our great country to instead to fund ever more welfare, free health care, and cap-and-trade initiatives to win yourself huge new blocs of freeloader voters, at least say it straight. Claiming our great American Space Shuttle is as expensive as Buran would have been and so should be terminated shows the depth of your duplicity.

[CapitanoGUC]

@tziuriky86 hehehe - like the spacshutle program today, right ??? :-D - but today russia is fine - why can´t the pick it up again. - they even could rent it out to other nations and make money that way ...:-D

[ixorafy]

If it was too expensive but it can lift extremely heavy stuff into orbit (liquid fuel boosters), why not make it the Russian version of Ariane 5?

[sirpico123]

got canned coz it was way too expensive and ussr was on verge of bankruptcy. us space shuttle has gone the same way @ $1 billion a launch.

[ModelbuildingTANKS]

@ranlaen Those sad shuttle disasters only happened twice, and it was because of misinspection. Space travel is dangerous in any form, rocket or shuttle. The reason the soviets gave up the shuttle idea was because rockets are more financially sound in the short run. Shuttles cost less to operate in the long run, as they are reusable. There are certainly pros and cons for both, but neither is a "safe" option.

[Jeff12798]

@juancarlosbascu Sir, You just torched kila730's ass!!

[ranlaen]

I think that it was not only for financial reason that the Soviets shelved its shuttle program.They probably build it to rub into NASAs eyes.It is a white elephant,expensive and dangerous.Space Stations with small true shuttles aka rockets between it and earth was the way to space exploration.Look at today and two shuttle disasters later and you will see its true.Space station in orbit, russian rockets still flying,Last Soviet/Russian death was in 1971.

[monokhem]

All you Russians talking trash about the US space shuttle, and about how you knockoff is so much better, It couldn't have been that much better beause you never used it. The US Shuttle program is demonstrably superior.

[Armigo91]

@snippakid788

Ye putin is king.

Medvedev is a nice guy that does his job.

May mother russia prosper forever.

The buran is way better then the STS. Energia could aswell have designed a heavier shuttle with larger payload. They probably kept that as a surprise. But sadly none of them flew.

And we dont need to tell why.

If it did.....speechless.

[kz4eva]

@juancarlosbascu блин ты идиот вообще у нас была программа совместно с сша кароч вы америкоты бесите.. ппц тупые нет реально

[snippakid788]

@4illegalalien the Russian economy is currently the strongest in Europe and one of the worlds fastest growing... also government corruption in Russia is no more. Since Putin took office corruption is right next to none. I would know, i work for FSB and Russian ministry of Internal affairs

[The1976spirit]

Buran and Space Shuttle, both they are NOT able to land on railway tracks, not automatically giuded by computers, nor by a human pilot. Curtis Le May´s psychopaths rule everywhere.

Sorry, but if I myself had have been commander in chief of the Apollo 13 mission, I´d executed Fred Hayes because of sabotage. Perhaps Bernie Ecclestone would explain how to make liquid O2 but champagne create a funny bang!