The collapse killed eight workers and destroyed the orbiter as well as a mock-up of an Energia booster rocket. On May 12, 2002, a hangar housing Buran collapsed due to poor maintenance in Kazakhstan. Currently, none of these plans have come to further fruition however, there have recently been new interests in renewing the program temporarily while Russia struggles with the CSTS and Kliper design stages. Several scientists have been looking into trying to revive the Buran program, especially after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Due to the cancellation of the project, this never took place. In 1989, it was projected that Buran would have an unmanned second flight in 1993, with a duration of 15–20 days. The launch video has since been released to the public, confirming that the shuttle did indeed lift off with the poor weather conditions described by the Soviet media at the time easily seen. This led to some speculation that the mission may have been fabricated, and that the subsequent landing may not have been from orbit but from a shuttle-carrying aircraft, as with the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Part of the launch was televised but the actual lift-off was not shown. It performed an automated landing on the shuttle runway at Baikonur Cosmodrome where, despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres (38.0 mi) /hour, it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target. The shuttle orbited the Earth twice in 206 minutes of flight.
#Buran shuttle in hangar software#
The life support system was partially installed and no software was installed to run the computer display screens. It was lifted into orbit unmanned by the specially designed Energia booster rocket. The Buran spacecraft that orbited the earth 25 years ago gathered dust for years inside a hangar at the space center in Kazakhstan, and much like the country that built it, the spacecraft is no. The only orbital launch of Buran occurred at 3:00 UTC on 15 November 1988 from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 110/37.
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