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Our new song "Buran"
Recorded 13-10-2011 at Jara Club in Kharkiv, Ukaine.
Dedicated to Buran (spacecraft) and all the people who made the dream a reality!
A little story about Buran spacecraft.
The only orbital launch of the Buran shuttle 1.01 was at 3:00 UTC on 15 November 1988. It was lifted into orbit by the specially designed Energia booster rocket. The life support system was not installed and no software was installed on the CRT displays.[6] The shuttle orbited the Earth twice in 206 minutes of flight. On its return, it performed an automated landing on the shuttle runway at Baikonur Cosmodrome
This fact - the flight of spacecraft into space and down to Earth in the automatic mode is running on-board computer - entered the Guinness Book of Records.
On May 12, 2002, the Buran hangar in Kazakhstan collapsed because of a structural failure due to poor maintenance. The collapse killed 7 workers and destroyed the orbiter as well as a mock-up of an Energia booster rocket.[11] It occurred at building 112 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 14 years after its first and only flight. Work on the roof had begun for a maintenance project, whose equipment is thought to have contributed to the collapse. Also, preceding May 12 there had been several days of heavy rain
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