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Russian space shuttle finds home in German museum

And it was sailed up the Rhine to get there

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space
Apr 9 2008, 1:44 pm
IHT: Russian space shuttle sets sail up the Rhine for new German home.

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The shuttle has been in storage in Bahrain since 2002. Last month, the museum's new acquisition — with its wings removed for transport — was loaded onto a ship in Manama for its journey to the Dutch port of Rotterdam. It was then loaded onto a barge for its stately trip up the Rhine. The shuttle sailed out of Cologne on Wednesday after floating past the city's landmark cathedral on Tuesday.

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Space

Panama
Apr 9 2008, 2:12 pm
I was just looking for a pic of it to see how it looked and found this one on its way through the Rhine. Now added above.

Source: Buran - Wikipedia
tom_a
Apr 9 2008, 2:40 pm
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Buran 1.01 (11F35 K1) wurde in der Montagehalle „MIK-112“ auf dem Weltraumbahnhof in Baikonur gelagert und am 12. Mai 2002 zerstört, als die Decke des Hangars bei mangelhaft ausgeführten Reparaturarbeiten einbrach. ... Der nur teilweise gebaute Buran 2.03 (11F35 K5) wurde unmittelbar nach der Terminierung des Programms abgewrackt. ... Das Modell Buran OK-GLI (oder BTS-02), der Prototyp des Raumfähren-Programms, war als einziges Modell mit eigenen Triebwerken ausgestattet und absolvierte erfolgreich 25 unbemannte Atmosphärenflüge, um das Landesystem zu testen.

An impressive display of Russian high-tech and engineering skills, it seems: The first one was destroyed when the ceiling of its hangar collapsed. The next one was decommissioned before it was even fully built. And the one that is now in Germany had 25 unmanned flights within the earth's atmosphere intended to test the landing gear, and that was it. What an incredible waste of work and money, considering they had up to 30,000 people working on the project! ph34r.gif
Pas
Apr 9 2008, 2:46 pm
You might want to look up projects like TRS 2 before being too critical of the Ruskis.

Looks vaguely familiar. Where did they get the idea for it.
Derekbeggs
Apr 9 2008, 2:57 pm
Only a matter of time then until we get one of these turgidly boring seventeen hour tv "specials" about how it was transported then. Oh that will be so much different from the boiler/concord/747/transformer/ship engine ones which we have seen before.
hughk
Apr 9 2008, 3:48 pm
Buran was quite interesting. First of all, all the Buran tests were made unmanned and included suborbital space flights (no life-support system installed). Only in the last few years has it been possible for the Space Shuttle to land unassisted. The other interesting thing was that unlike the Shuttle which piggybacks another aircraft when being shipped, Buran could move itself long distances given a strap on jet-pack.
Rebecca
Apr 9 2008, 5:29 pm
Lots of pics of the space shuttle on its journey here.

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index...04.08-15:48:43
Dr. Love
Apr 10 2008, 6:22 am
QUOTE (Derekbeggs @ Apr 9 2008, 3:57 pm) *
Only a matter of time then until we get one of these turgidly boring seventeen hour tv "specials" about how it was transported then. Oh that will be so much different from the boiler/concord/747/transformer/ship engine ones which we have seen before.

Yeah what a bore.
Maybe this little transport interests you more How do you get 6 subs from Germany to the black sea (Russia)

Faszinating stuff. Have a look at the pictures.
space
Apr 12 2008, 3:59 pm
QUOTE (Derekbeggs @ Apr 9 2008, 3:57 pm) *
Only a matter of time then until we get one of these turgidly boring seventeen hour tv "specials" about how it was transported then.

Boredom is a choice.
Take care,
space
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