The Buran then was moved to the Manama port where it was stored in a closed storage space. After the display in Australia, the Buran went on exhibition in Manama, Bahrain. How did the Technik Museum Sinsheim/Speyer come to own Buran? The Buran at stake had been at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, brought there on loan for exhibition to the public. The Buran 002 is the test version of the shuttle, with engines, used between 19 for a total of 25 atmospheric flights.īecause of the enormous cost, the Russian Buran Project was canceled by Russian president Michael Gorbachev after its first successful space flight in 1988. Moreover, unmanned flights were possible with the Buran. The Buran is bigger than all the American counterparts. When compared, there are a few differences between the Russian Buran and the US Space Shuttle.
The new space shuttle was named Buran, which translates in Russian to "snow storm". See below for more photographs from the Buran's journey Russian scientists in 1976 developed a new space system that was very similar to the US space shuttle. Technik Museum Speyer release (translated from German via Google) Museum officials are expected to hold a news conference on the transport early next week. However, BTS-002 does not appear to have suffered any major structural damage. One of the hooks holding BTS-002 gave way when the vehicle was still suspended two meters above the deck, with the aft fuselage hitting the quay wall in the process. The vehicle reportedly had a close call as it was being lowered to the deck of the ship used for the transport.
BURAN SHUTTLE LOCATIONS UPDATE
So much for that!Īn update via Bart Hendrickx: Russian Buran historian Vadim Lukashevich reports that BTS-002, the Buran model used for approach and landing tests in the 1980s, left Bahrain on March 4 and is now on its way to its final destination, the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany. On the company's website of then (which has since disappeared), they said the analog would be touring Australia, including coming to Melbourne, so I decided to wait. I remember when the Buran analog was in Sydney and that I was having thoughts about going up there in early 2001 to see it. The Buran Shuttle will find a good home at the Speyer Technik Museum, one of the largest technology museums in the world. Too bad they couldn't shove it in somewheres near the Powerhouse Museum, where they have some interesting space artifacts. It is a shame they had the financial problems that they did. It was a neat chance to get up close to a real space shuttle. I visited the Buran when it was in Sydney. Hopefully the analog will now find a good home and be looked after properly! If any more treasures like this are found (or when people return to the moon and they come upon the LRVs), I hope they say three words: "Hello, old friend." Kind of reminds me when oil prospectors found the remains of a missing WWII B-24 years later in the desert. At a court hearing on Tuesday, a lawyer for the Singapore-based Tour will argue that the Buran cannot be sold until its ownership is ruled in court. The Buran however, may remain stranded in Bahrain until a legal dispute between its past and present owners is settled.Īt question is whether the company that built the Buran, NPO Molniya, can sell the shuttle to the Speyer Technical Museum after the Space Shuttle World Tour, which brought the orbiter to Bahrain, defaulted on their contractual payments. For a reported high six-digit deal, the orbiter was to join the exhibits at the Speyer Technical Museum. The Buran was slated again to move, this time to Germany sometime over the next six months. Again money issues became a concern, and the Buran laid in waiting, partially dismantled, at a Persian Gulf port. When the display closed due to financial constraints, investors negotiated to have the Buran moved to Bahrain where it was displayed as part of a 2002 summer festival. After being offered on the web without a sale, Buran-Analogue 002 (OK-GLI) was finally sold to an Australian company organizing its exhibition in Sydney Harbour for the 2000 Olympics. It may have never been intended to orbit the globe, but a Russian Buran space shuttle has been circling the Earth ever since being retired from atmospheric approach and landing tests in 1988. Topic: Speyer Technik: Space Expo, Buran shuttle Profile | register | preferences | faq | search Speyer Technik: Space Expo, Buran shuttle Speyer Technik: Space Expo, Buran shuttle - collectSPACE: Messages
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