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Jess Lurkin NULL wrote in news:Xns9DD26FAD561AIPHIDEinuseALERT@
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Is this the tank of the Russian space shuttle?

What's it's name?

Are they still operational?

Thanks to Obama, the new US space shuttles are "on hold"...

Chunbala wrote in
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Jess Lurkin NULL wrote in news:Xns9DD26FAD561AIPHIDEinuseALERT@
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Is this the tank of the Russian space shuttle?

What's it's name?

Are they still operational?

Thanks to Obama, the new US space shuttles are "on hold"...


Yep, Buran tank

Just off the top of my pointy head...

Buran never left the ground (excluding piggy-back)
Seems that only one copy was manufactured
Someone here posted a pic of it in some lonely patch of weeds

I 'speck with bammy, a whole lot of stuff will
be "on hold" for a long time...

Common Sense
Economic Recovery
Tax relief
Race baiting
Draining the Potomac "swamp" of corruption/cronyism/thuggery
et al, etc. ad nauseum

Jess Lurkin wrote:
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Yep, Buran tank


No: Buran had no main tank as it was carried to space by an Energija rocket.

Buran never left the ground (excluding piggy-back)
Seems that only one copy was manufactured

There was one unmanned flight of Buran, still lacking life support
systems etc.

Mor information is on Wikipedia or
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/buran.htm

Wolfgang

--
If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7

Jess Lurkin NULL wrote in news:Xns9DD28C8AD2299IPHIDEinuseALERT@
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Chunbala wrote in
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Jess Lurkin NULL wrote in news:Xns9DD26FAD561AIPHIDEinuseALERT@
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Is this the tank of the Russian space shuttle?

What's it's name?

Are they still operational?

Thanks to Obama, the new US space shuttles are "on hold"...


Yep, Buran tank

Just off the top of my pointy head...

Buran never left the ground (excluding piggy-back)
Seems that only one copy was manufactured
Someone here posted a pic of it in some lonely patch of weeds

I 'speck with bammy, a whole lot of stuff will
be "on hold" for a long time...

Common Sense
Economic Recovery
Tax relief
Race baiting
Draining the Potomac "swamp" of corruption/cronyism/thuggery
et al, etc. ad nauseum


Thanks!

I was tooooooo lazy today to seek it on Google...

It never left the ground? Wow... Perestroyka?

And don't forget all the oil floating on the Gulf...

Chunbala wrote in news:Xns9DD29F4C47600Chunbala@
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Jess Lurkin NULL wrote in news:Xns9DD26FAD561AIPHIDEinuseALERT@
74.209.136.93:


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Is this the tank of the Russian space shuttle?

What's it's name?

Are they still operational?

Thanks to Obama, the new US space shuttles are "on hold"...