Spacecraft Buran (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow
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Contrary to popular myth, this one never flew - built for all kinds of training and tests, incl. damaging and destructive.

The real Buran is at conservation in a top secret hangar in the midst of frosty neverland ;))
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
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Coordinates:   55°43'43"N   37°35'48"E

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  • This one was, for a time, converted to a steakhouse in Gorky Park. The *real* Buran, which only flew once in 1988, was destroyed about a decade ago when a blizzard collapsed its hanger. A couple others were in construction when the program was abandoned, but of course they were never completed.
  • The ”Real Buran” was destroyed when the Roof of Baikonur Site 112 [refer to location 45°55'41"N 63°17'55"E] collapsed in May 2002, due to overloading it with building materials. Two other Full-scale Mock-ups are at the MZK Fuelling Facility at Baikonur [refer to 45°56'25"N 63°19'6"E], one is displayed at the Museum of the Baikonur Cosmodrome [refer to 45°54'33"N 63°19'3"E] and one is on display in Speyer Technik Museum [refer to 49°18'42"N 8°26'50"E].
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