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The Buran rotting away in an abandoned hangar is such a visceral representation of how legitimately apocalyptic the collapse of the Soviet Union truly was (hexbear.net)

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[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 months ago

It's an interesting story about how they got hold of the plans and decided that slapping the SRBs on the side were too dangerous and then built the energia booster, and put the Buran on the top as the Shuttle should have been. Another funny twist is that they kept the roll just after launch, even if it's not strictly needed with the energia booster.

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