As such, it is, practically by definition, an outstanding work. Energiyaburan the soviet space shuttle bart hendrickx. Besides describing the first operational sovietrussian shuttle orbiter, buran. The american space shuttle and the decision to build the soviet buran. How did a report claiming to show that the american shuttle could be. The buran programme also known as the vkk space orbiter programme was a soviet and. Let me start by stating the obvious energiya buran. At the outset of the buran project in 1976, the soviet leadership, indeed. It will pay for the development programme in part by taking more space tourists like dennis tito up to the space station. After a foreword provided by lead buran test pilot igor. Russia plans to reassert itself as a major power in space by resurrecting the buran space shuttle, a relic of the soviet era. As we now know from numerous unclassified documents and. Many of the wellknown soviet space program historiansauthors provided the authors with infos, most photos are from v. According to documents obtained by nbc news, it was the kgb that.
The program eventually saw just one unmanned flight in november 1988 before the end of the cold war and the collapse of the soviet union sealed its fate. Springerpraxis sets the quality bar extremely high. The russian space shuttle buran which looked similar to the u. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page information. Buran was the first space plane to be produced as part of the soviet russian buran program. The soviet space shuttle buran space documentary youtube. The decision to go forward with development of this system was made in 19741976 but the program was slow to gear up. Did the soviets actually build a better space shuttle. Shuttle crew support cscsrescue flight resource book pdf. A quartercentury ago, it seemed like the space shuttle suddenly got a new sibling.
The soviet reusable spacecraft programme has its roots in the very. This absorbing book describes the long development of the soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency. The buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the soviet union in response to nasas space shuttle program. The soviet space shuttle, is a volume in the superb springerpraxis series of books about space exploration.