vrus Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 There was a project on for making a Russian space shuttle during the final soviet years. It was called the Buran. Wikipedia has a good load on it, but I'd like to know more about it. Did they have to cancel it ? Couldn't they have suspended it and resumed it when their economy was not crumbling ? Maybe now ? Because, I think if it was operational, the ISS would have been finished for a while now as it can carry a larger payload than its american counterpart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 My two cents... The shuttle is a very poor design for a space craft one of the major reasons it was designed like that is the USAF where part of the design team and wanted it to look like an aircraft for propoganda. There is a reason why NASA are moving back to more traditional vehicles. As for the russian one I can't recall much about it, it was considerably larger than the shuttle if I recall :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 The Wikipedia has a good summary and photos, as well as some good starting-point links, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Buran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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