Buran energia launch ( Soviet Shuttle program )

unmanned test flight of Buran, 1.01 The Russian Space Shuttle, at 03:00 hours UT on 15 November 1988. The stack employed a specially modified Energia booster.

This, the only flight of Buran, was 206 minutes (two orbits) in duration and ended with the landing of the orbiter at Baikonur Cosmodrome.

A second flight may have been scheduled for 1993 but never occured as the Buran program had been cancelled prior to this time.

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• Russian
• Spaceflight
• Shuttle
• Buran
• Energia

[charger19691]

I appreciate all your views. Maybe a time will come when USA and Russia will build a new shuttle as a joint venture. Maybe we can learn from each other. Our space program has some great accomplishments but horrible tragedys as well. Maybe someday in a better world we can achieve more greatness.

[ZaneKaminski]

Not true.

4 of the 8 engines on there are RD-171 engines. They are the world's most powerful rocket engines, and a smaller derivative is used today on American Atlas V rockets.

Furthermore, to compare to the Saturn V, the Energia produced roughly the same (actually slightly more) liftoff thrust, but weighed more than 1 million pounds less.

So in other words, the Energia accelerates faster than our "flagship" space race launcher, the Saturn V.

[algaroon]

@chillaxer1993 Mr. fool, your ignorance is horrible. Your fake long exposed. U.S. has never been a leader in the space race. The first satellite, the first cosmonaut, the first docking of the first spacewalk, the first woman in space, the first satellite of the sun, preview pictures of the moon, Mars and Venus. The first space station. All that the Soviet Union. Stick your head in the shit, where did you say something and it vytschili. Ignoramus.

[MrButtcrap]

@chillaxer1993 Typical american idiot.

[chillaxer1993]

@algaroon you're naive because you're too embarrased to face the fact that america was a leader in space technology. get your head out of your ass or kill yourself because you're too ignorant to live in this society. We landed on the moon several times. you're the kind of people who are so afraid of the truth that they make shit up because they're ignorant. Go die you fucking prick, maybe ill kill you to put u out of your misery

[redskins112995]

"I Can See Russia From My House" commin from the moon russian comrades

[kz4eva]

да мочить их надо америкотов! или куцинича тогда в президенты

он норм чел не то что ошмабы и всякие бюши)

[Plutoplatter]

@mikeplay007 Oh my, you are another neurotic who can't handle the reality that we Americans conducted six successful manned landings on the Moon. Those Google sites that support your fevered fantasies? Delusional like you. You idiots run in packs and read only idiot publications and websites. You poor thing. Let me offer some advice: Move out of your mother's house. Get a job. And take your antipsychotic medications each and every day. Then come back sometime and let us know how you're doing.

[mikeplay007]

@Plutoplatter Mister stupidity,Americans never have been on the moon, it was all fake, are you still didn't awoke up from cold war propaganda? The "AMERICAN MOON LANDING" you are so proud off was just pathetice lie and propaganda bullshit. Videos were made in Nevada desert. GOOGLE IT, Fake moon landing.

[placydoplacek]

First of all shuttle program was mistake. Russians are smart and dropped that poor idea. Russians rules in the space. Hope that there will be no more mistakes like space shuttle anymore (instead of taking useful payload to orbit they took 75 tons of junk). The only and real hope for USA is super heavy lift system (such as Ares V (canceled) or Direct (based on space shuttle parts) and SpaceX. If those two fails - USA fails. Hail to Space Russia

[algaroon]

Looked at the comments and laugh. Pro-American idiots still believe that the Americans were on the moon ... Naive people.

[adrastea99]

The russian shuttle was definitively better, but then again they could improve on american mistakes