http://www.museumspeyer.de/index.html
Click on the space ship and further on "Bilder von 1. april 2008" to see some pictures of the transport.
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Posted on 04/08/2008 2:36:43 PM PDT by MHalblaub
Russian shuttle with space mines retires
It was built to take on America in Cold War star wars, but now a Russian version of the US Space Shuttle has come to earth with a bump to end in a German museum.
The Buran or Blizzard orbiter, was designed to be equipped with high-technology lasers or missiles and space mines, as Soviet war planners assumed America has weaponised the Space Shuttle.
But 15 years after the project was finally shut down in 1993, marking the end of the Cold War's most ambitious and expensive confrontations, Buran is making a much more peaceful journey into retirement.
Once able to orbit the earth every 100 minutes, it is now chugging down the Rhine on the back of a barge at roughly five miles per hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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I did not realize that Buran had actually flown.
I believe its all-automated flight was considered historical.
I do lament the abandonment of the Energia heavy-lift booster that it rode into space.
I always felt that the Buran looked vaguely familiar. I just can’t put my finger on where I’ve seen that design before.
Did they fly it into Switzerland to send it down the Rhine to Germany?
If you consider a single unmanned test flight, yes I guess it did fly.
Roger Moore betrayed us by selling a prerelease copy of Moonraker to the Soviets.
God how I wish the Soviets could have placed this thing into operational service, maybe it would have kicked our space programs in the butt and we would be on Mars by now...
The USSR had a spy space station with a cannon. After the first crew left, they remotely triggered the cannon.
Things started breaking during subsequent crewings, I'm guessing from the shock of the recoil.
Then, advances in satellite technology, including high resolution electronic cameras, made manned spying space craft unnecessary.
Agree. At least we might have gotten farther than we have. It has been reported that Obama would defer funds to further develop our follow-on system for five years beyond the current plans which are for 2015 manned flights, I believe. We had better be nice to Putin for at least five years, and the potential exists for further diversions of resources to the endless pit of social and entitlement program.
More evidence that the US is in decline. And we are declining because we want to.
Looks familiar. Makes me wonder if Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s kid had got himself a job at NASA.
Shuttlenski.....
“And in another two years, the US will retire its shuttle and will be totally dependent on the Russians for manned space flight for at least five years and maybe a lot longer than that.”
That realization may set in hard enough I hope, to decrease “the gap” with more funding.
Of course we have already had large gaps.... Before shuttle and after both shuttle disasters.
Perhaps the military may have it’s own human space access.
There was a story a little while back in Aviation Week that suggested such vehicles may exist.
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