Space Shuttle Buran First (and final) Landing Replay Cameras

The automated landing of soviet Buran 1.01 spacecraft performed on the shuttle runway of Yubileyny airdrome (UAON) Baikonur Cosmodrome (space center) on November 15th, 1988.
It was lifted into orbit by Energia rocket (see previous user's vid). Full automated unmanned flight. Buran spacecraft orbited the Earth twice in 206 minutes of flight. It was first and the only one flight of Energia-Buran program. The project was suspended due to lack of funds and the political situation in the Soviet Union.

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• Buran
• Space Shuttle
• Energia
• 11F35K1
• final
• last
• Baikonur
• Буран
• Энергия
• Байконур

[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

[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.

[Buholog]

@TheATSA there were test flights of a BURAN prototypes with engines, youtube.com/watch?v=LxbB4WaQCE­o - it can lift off and fly like a normal plane

[theMuffinMan9999]

@wollin20 lol. the first and last flight didnt even have men on it. talk about faith in technology!

[maisler]

@lucabrasi1337 remember my first beer

[lucabrasi1337]

I flew these during the war.

[yummmm11]

@wollin20 space exploration isnt a waste of money

[TupolevTech]

design rip-offski

[zloychechen5150]

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

[zloychechen5150]

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

[haitiano1982]

russians spy's at their best!

[Crazyboy123232]

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