"Buran: How the Soviets Stole The Space Shuttle" Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Jan 2021 3:59 p.m. PST |
"Although America's space shuttle was not the budget-friendly platform it was intended to be, the program was so successful that the Soviet Union decided to build their own. Unbeknownst to most, they actually did, and it even flew in space. On April 12, 1981, NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia roared to life for the first time. As the shuttle's three powerful main engines ignited, they burned a swimming pool's worth of fuel every 25 seconds, thrusting the 4.4 million pound shuttle into the sky with an astonishing 37 million horsepower. In just eight and a half minutes, the shuttle would expend all of the fuel in its massive orange fuel tank and burn through its two solid-fuel rocket thrusters…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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jurgenation | 06 Jan 2021 6:30 a.m. PST |
Sad all three burans ,just sitting in a Hangar and rotting away. |
Tango01 | 06 Jan 2021 11:58 a.m. PST |
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Tgerritsen | 06 Jan 2021 3:12 p.m. PST |
The hangar collapsed a few years back, and the orbiter that actually flew was damaged pretty severely (and engineers died). link
(Courtesy of SpaceFlightNow since the internet fascists demand attribution even though you just have to hover over or click the link to see it for yourself, making this quite possibly the dumbest trend I've seen on the internet.) |
Tango01 | 07 Jan 2021 12:57 p.m. PST |
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