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Buran. (spacecraft) Buran ( Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], meaning "Snowstorm" or "Blizzard"; GRAU index serial number: 11F35 1K, construction number: 1.01) was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program. Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was destroyed in 2002 due to the collapse ...
The Buran programme ( Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the " VKK Space Orbiter programme " ( Russian: ВКК «Воздушно-Космический Корабль», lit. 'Air and Space Ship'), [1] was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project that began in 1974 at the Central ...
The development of the Buran vehicles by the Soviet Union began in the late 1970s as a response to the Space Shuttle program of the United States. The construction of the orbiters began in 1980, and by 1984 the first full-scale Buran was rolled out. The first suborbital test flight of a scale-model took place as early as July 1983. As the ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Baikonur Cosmodrome [a] is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. [1] All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur. [2]
Soyuz. Progress. [ edit on Wikidata] Soyuz ( Russian: Союз, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) is a family of expendable Russian and Soviet carrier rockets developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia. The Soyuz is the rocket with the most launches in the history of spaceflight.
The Buran programme was an attempt by the Soviet Union to construct an orbital spaceplane to perform similar functions to the Space Shuttle. Similar to the Space Shuttle programme, an aerodynamic prototype and a number of operational spacecraft were planned for the Buran programme, [1] which were known as " Buran -class orbiters".
2.01 ( GRAU index serial number 11F35 3K) is the designation of the third Buran -class orbiter to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Its construction was not complete when the Buran programme was cancelled (30–50 percent done), so it remains unfinished. [1] It was never officially named, though it's often referred to ...
The mission crew members are veteran astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, each of whom has ventured to space on two previous journeys aboard NASA space shuttle and Russian Soyuz missions.