What is to be done with Ptichka and OK-M in the Baikanour hanger? Heck, I wish NASA would get Buran's sister and put her next to Atlantis. A nice compare and contrast of the shuttles of two nations side by side.
And to mark the 25th anniversary, here's what is surprisingly our first Buran article!http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/remembering-buran-shuttles-estranged-soviet-cousin/Many thanks to Nickolai for his help with the article!
First Soviet Space Shuttle (PROTOTYPE) story, start in 1957Dan Beaumont Space MuseumPublished on Jan 31, 2017(RUSSIAN AUDIO) TV Roscosmos, January 31, 2017: In February 1957, 60 years ago, aircraft Tsybin Paul, who led OKB-256, was given the task to develop a planning spacecraft "PCA". It outputs to a height of 300 kilometers of the carrier rocket "Vostok". After orbital flight "PAC" had to return to Earth, planning in the dense layers of the atmosphere. During the descent, in the zone of intense thermal heating "RCA" would use the lift force of the original shape of the hull. This project Sergey Korolev gave an informal name of - "Lapotok".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsV_q8-hAyM?t=001
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4342852A full-scale test model of Buran (vehicle N° 003) now located on the premises of RKK Energia near Moscow will be transported to Sochi on the Black Sea
Quote from: B. Hendrickx on 06/16/2017 10:50 pmhttp://tass.ru/kosmos/4342852A full-scale test model of Buran (vehicle N° 003) now located on the premises of RKK Energia near Moscow will be transported to Sochi on the Black SeaJust to keep things clear, could you give us the OK number/version? Thanks!