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    coordinates) The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter programme" (Russian: ВКК...
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    The developers of the Buran space vehicle programme considered using Mi-26 helicopters to "bundle" lift components for the Buran spacecraft, but test flights...
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    as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program. The Buran orbiters were similar in design to the U.S. Space Shuttle. Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight...
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    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...
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    The Soviet space programme named a class of spacecraft after the buran (see Buran programme). Dust storm N'aschi Shamal (wind) Buran on Winds of the World...
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  • Look up Buran or buran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buran may refer to: Buran, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran Buran, Mazandaran, a...
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    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...
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  • the designation of the fifth Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. It was never officially named. 2.03 was a...
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    for all orbiters in the programme), is the second Buran-class orbiter, produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Although 2K was the closest...
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    305°E / 46.008; 63.305 As part of the Buran programme, several facilities were adapted or newly built for the Buran-class space shuttle orbiters: Site 110...
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  • designation of the fourth built Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. Construction of 2.02 is believed to have...
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    Mir (redirect from Mir programme)
    halted while all resources were being put into the Buran programme in order to prepare the Buran spacecraft for flight testing. Funding resumed in early...
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    Spaceplane (section Buran)
    be launched into space. The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket as a launch vehicle. The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union...
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    OK-GLI (category Buran-class orbiters)
    atmospheric test vehicle ("Buran aerodynamic analogue") of the orbital Buran spacecraft. It was constructed for the Buran programme in 1984, and was used for...
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    Igor Volk (category Buran program)
    2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in 1956. After graduation...
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    an enlarged derivative of the Antonov An-124 airlifter for transporting Buran spacecraft. On 21 December 1988, the An-225 performed its maiden flight;...
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  • Zvezda spaceplane, a Soviet spaceplane project; see Buran programme#History of the Buran programme NPP Zvezda, Russian aeronautical and space manufacturer...
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  • medium-range narrow-body jet airliner. "Buran" was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Tupolev Tu-123 Yastreb was one...
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    Rimantas Stankevičius (category Buran program)
    a Lithuanian test pilot and cosmonaut in the Soviet space shuttle Buran programme. He was killed in a crash of his Su-27 fighter plane during an airshow...
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    and between 2003 and 2005 after catastrophic failures. The Soviet shuttle Buran was very similar and was designed to have the same capabilities but made...
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  • Anatoly Levchenko (category Buran program)
    Левченко; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Trained as a test pilot and selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1980...
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  • space plane, the crewed part of the Space Shuttle Buran Shuttle, the vehicle for the Soviet Buran programme Shuttle (film), a 2008 thriller film Shuttle (video...
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    Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI TsAGI in the Buran programme TsAGI on Google Maps 55°35′36″N 38°06′24″E / 55.59333°N 38.10667°E...
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    David C. Jones to hold on the story, but received details on the Buran programme which were published on March 20, 1978. It revealed progressively the...
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    1980s even considering flights of the future Soviet shuttles from the Buran programme to a future US space station – this "Shuttle–Salyut" program never...
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    JSC NPO Molniya, lead developer of the Russian Spiral and Shuttle Buran programme, Doctor of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of Lenin Prize...
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    air-launched orbiter projects, such as Svityaz and Oril. Air launch to orbit Buran programme State Space Agency of Ukraine § Svityaz project RD-701 - main engine...
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    designed the Energia rocket for the Buran space shuttle program. Since the early beginnings of the Luna programme it designed many space probes, among...
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    of launches. However, it was ultimately rejected on basis of cost. Buran programme Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar X-37 Dream Chaser List of launch vehicle designs...
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    short visits. The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter programme" (Russian: ВКК...
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