Soviet space shuttle finally finds final hangar in Germany

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,30602,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-547191,00.html

The 80s, the US space shuttle and the Soviet answer to it, though it never entered regular service - those were years of magic, and every shuttle launch was a sensation.

[baggygreen]

The similarity is eery, isnt it!

[Trex]

The similarity is eery, isnt it!Maybe, but given the same role and roughly the same level of technology, convergent design becomes almost inevitable. Look at submarine hulls, for example; most are very similar because their designers all perforce use the same engineering equations.

[bookworm_020]

I wondered where it had ended up. I remember it coming to Australia, but it was only open for a short time as it was a flop as a tourist attraction. Last last time I saw it was mid-2000 disassembled in front of the old Sydney Casino.

I believe there is still a court case still going on about the former owners and some of the debts they left behind!

[I-25]

Thats the flying test model not an actual spaceworthy shuttle, the real actual Buran was destroyed in a building collapse:-?
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/buran/buran-wreckage2.jpg