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    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also...
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    Soviet/Russian Buran program. Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was destroyed in 2002 due to the collapse of its storage hangar. The Buran-class...
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    flight days). Buran never flew again; the program was cancelled shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2002, the Buran orbiter was destroyed...
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    NPO Energia of the Soviet Union as part of the Buran program for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft. Control system main developer enterprise...
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    Footnotes The program was suspended between 1986 and 1988 and between 2003 and 2005 after catastrophic failures. The Soviet shuttle Buran was very similar...
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    of any of the Buran-class orbiters (after the orbiter Buran), it was never finished. The program was officially cancelled in 1993, at which point the shuttle...
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    the third Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Its construction was not complete when the Buran programme...
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  • designation of the fourth built Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. Construction of 2.02 is believed to...
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  • DRAKON, an algorithmic visual programming language developed for the Buran space project. Intercosmos, a Soviet space program designed to give nations on...
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    to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran-class orbiters for the Soviet space program. Furthermore, a relatively short timetable for the...
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    OK-GLI (category Buran-class orbiters)
    The development of the Buran vehicles by the Soviet Union began in the late 1970s as a response to the Space Shuttle program of the United States. The...
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    Spaceplane (section Buran)
    reentered Earth's atmosphere, and landed: the U.S. Space Shuttle, Russian Buran, U.S. X-37, and the Chinese CSSHQ. Another, Dream Chaser, is under development...
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    DRAKON (category Buran program)
    source algorithmic visual programming and modeling language developed as part of the defunct Soviet Union Buran space program in 1986 following the need...
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    modified to carry rocket boosters and the Soviet space shuttles of the Buran program. It is also known as the 3M-T. The design was conceived in 1978 when...
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    Baikonur Cosmodrome (category Space program of Kazakhstan)
    stored after the end of the Buran program and was destroyed when the hangar roof collapsed in 2002. Site 251 – Used as Buran orbiter landing facility, also...
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  • rovers. The launch pad and MIK of N1 were redesigned for the Energia-Buran shuttle program. Five LKs and three LOKs remain, at least, with some kept in the...
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  • The Soviet Buran program was a reusable spaceplane project begun in 1976 at TsAGI as a response to the United States Space Shuttle program. It had only...
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    Igor Volk (category Buran program)
    January 2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in 1956. After graduation...
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    project was cancelled when the decision was made to instead proceed with the Buran project. The MiG test vehicle itself still exists and is currently on display...
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    Kristall (category Buran program)
    Kristall was its relation to the Soviet Buran program. Kristall carried two APAS-89 designed to be compatible with the Buran shuttle. One unit was located axially...
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    Salyut space station program, the uncrewed Progress resupply craft and designed the Energia rocket for the Buran space shuttle program. Since the early beginnings...
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    the future Soviet shuttles from the Buran programme to a future US space station – this "Shuttle–Salyut" program never materialized however during the...
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    Commons has media related to Soyuz program. Shenzhou, a Chinese spacecraft influenced by Soyuz Space Shuttle Buran (spacecraft) List of spaceflight-related...
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  • suits for municipal and aircraft rescue firefighters. Spaceflight portal Buran (spacecraft) Skylab 4 Cegłowski, Maciej (2005-08-03). "A Rocket To Nowhere"...
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    90 ton modules. This would involve launch of the DOS-8, after which the Buran shuttle would grapple the module, rendezvous with Mir, and attach it to...
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    important than gaining experience for a potential Buran crew member. At the time of the mission the Buran program was still a state secret. The appearance of...
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    with historic Buran programme ALGOL software. A significant contribution of the ALGOL 58 Report was to provide standard terms for programming concepts: statement...
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    on 2010-02-07. Retrieved 2010-03-31. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Voskhod program. Voskhod manned space project on Encyclopedia Astronautica...
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    Valentin Glushko (category Soviet space program personnel)
    called Polyus. Ultimately, Buran did fly the following summer, a few months before Glushko's death. While Energia and Buran fell victim to loss of funding...
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  • [Star Wars that didn't happen]. Bart Hendrickx; Bert Vis (2007). Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-73984-7...
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