Lol its a blackops level!
Russia is such an intruiging place.
The urban explorers should take some tools with them and rip apart some of the space shuttle an the other structures there and sell the metal… probably worth a fortune.
Now that would be really fun.
It’s weird, I was thinking the same thing. Between the copper and alum, they could make a TON.
That’s a test shuttle / glider, not the actual orbital.
The real shuttle that actually flew was destroyed when the roof of it’s hangar collapsed:
More here: http://www.buran-energia.com/bourane-buran/bourane-desc.php
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This almost looks backward, lol:
Back when everything was working:
Richard Branson would pay a grip for that ‘glider’
Those are fucking fantastic pictures.
That rules…link to the urban exploring site?
It’s not an exploration site, just a photography site. I thought I linked it at the top… now I’ve gota find it again.
I didn’t know russia had a re-entry vehicle like our shuttle program.
Yeah, and interesting to note, when they had it in orbit it was completely automated and only missed its landing mark by 3 meters. Pretty good for the late 80’s early 90’s (can’t remember exactly when it flew it’s test flight). IIRC they were talking about getting the program up and running again as recently as 2001’ish but that’s when the hanger collapsed and someone was probably made to disappear.
The engineering behind structures like these just blows my mind. And now it’s just sitting there wasting away.
Tricks on you that is actually NASA when Obama gets done with it!~
Sad all that engineering is wasting away right.
That’s friggin’ awesome.
Foxbat! Fast POS, but still a POS.
+1. I thought they went rocket based single use like they do today.
EDIT:
Some more info on it for anyone interested.
http://www.k26.com/buran/Info/A_Comparison/a_comparison.html
Nice shots.
I would love to check out some old milling plants or manufacturing facilities from the WWII era.
This is one of the best threads that’s been on NYSpeed in a very long time. I went back over them again as there is just so much detail.
Kudos Josh, great find! :tup:
exactly what i thought