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Overflow · 11-15-2012, 03:42 PM

24 years ago today, the USSR's Space Shuttle Buran launched on it's first and only unmanned spaceflight. The flight lasted 3 hours and did 2 orbits around Earth.

Buran was the only Soviet Space Shuttle completed, since the program was cancelled in 1993.

The Buran was made to directly compete with the American Space Shuttle, which was believed be used to attack Russia from space at the time.

On May 12th, 2002, a hangar in Kazakhstan collapsed due to poor maintenance. This hangar has Buran inside of it, the only Soviet Space Shuttle. Buran was destroyed and 8 workers were killed.

After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, several scientists looked into restarting the Buran program back up. More recently, the director of Moscow's Central Machine Building Institute has said the Buran project will be reviewed in the hopes of restarting a similar manned spacecraft design, with rocket test launches as soon as 2015.

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Overflow Space Shuttle Aficionado Drives: 2016 Camaro 2SS Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 30,897 View My Garage	24 years ago today, the USSR's Space Shuttle Buran launched on it's first and only unmanned spaceflight. The flight lasted 3 hours and did 2 orbits around Earth. Buran was the only Soviet Space Shuttle completed, since the program was cancelled in 1993. The Buran was made to directly compete with the American Space Shuttle, which was believed be used to attack Russia from space at the time. On May 12th, 2002, a hangar in Kazakhstan collapsed due to poor maintenance. This hangar has Buran inside of it, the only Soviet Space Shuttle. Buran was destroyed and 8 workers were killed. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, several scientists looked into restarting the Buran program back up. More recently, the director of Moscow's Central Machine Building Institute has said the Buran project will be reviewed in the hopes of restarting a similar manned spacecraft design, with rocket test launches as soon as 2015.