The Ruskies are resurrecting Buran!

[VNugget]

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/russia-space-general-01m.html

Last week Energia, the state company which built Buran, opened its hangars at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to show Western aerospace engineers that Buran is ready and waiting for relaunch.

"There is a future for this programme," says Leonid Gurushkin, director of launch operations at Baikonur.

 

[Foxcow]

thats pretty cool!

 

[air_chompers]

w00t!

 

[Metro752]

Will theirs fly better than ours?

It will probably be able to hit a herd of Buffalo, and keep going.

 

[C601]

VNUGGET..... OM*G ...U idiot

Russia To Bring Space Shuttle Back From The Grave

Buran was mothballed in the early 1990s by the cash-strapped Russian government. But with the satellite launching business expanding and the International Space Station running behind schedule, Russian space officials think Buran's time has come. by Barry Fox for New Scientist
Baikonur - June 30, 2001

 

[C601]

BTW here is your Update ....

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml

Yeah its going to fly alright

 

[Fury220]

VNUGGET..... OM*G ...U idiot

Russia To Bring Space Shuttle Back From The Grave
http://www.spacedaily.com/images/mir-buran-dock-art-bg.jpg
Buran was mothballed in the early 1990s by the cash-strapped Russian government. But with the satellite launching business expanding and the International Space Station running behind schedule, Russian space officials think Buran's time has come. by Barry Fox for New Scientist
Baikonur - June 30, 2001

OWNED

 

[VNugget]

Wow I never let anything get past me, do I?

VNugget : excruciatingly agonizing over every tiny detail since 2001

edit: Well at least I took 3 other inattentive suckers down with me before it was over

 

[Foxcow]

Oh well, I'm only human...