SPACE SHUTTLES ,to become museum pieces

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by Oberon

The actual Buran was destroyed in a hangar collapse in 2002 in Kazakhstan

On of the flight test machines came to Sydney back around 1999, but ended up in pieces in a car park after fights broke out over who owened it after the company who brought it out went belly up.

I remember seeing it near the old casino here in Sydney in 2000. A sad sight indeed!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

On of the flight test machines came to Sydney back around 1999, but ended up in pieces in a car park after fights broke out over who owened it after the company who brought it out went belly up.

I think that is the one in Speyer, about the Speyer orbiter I have read that it was found during a sports championship, by a german TV crew that found it rotting in some backyard. It was bought and then transported via a ferry on the Rhine. The price including transportation was around 10 million, I believe to recall.

There was that flight test model, and a working Buran (1) that was conducting one remote-controlled flight, then never took off again and later was destroyed in that Hanger. A second Buran (2) was under construction, but never got completed although being in a very advanced construction state.

So, the one in Speyer indeed is the only existing model there is.