From Russia with Love

Nothing surprising there, the Buran program and its demise have been long-known. At least they fixed the roof on the hangar.
 
SuperBuickGuy said:
I'm pretty sure our space shuttles are as useless as the ones that are pictured there....
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True, BUT, you really should stop by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport IAD Chantilly Va. near DC........spend about 3 days seeing the exhibits, Shuttle, Blackbird, the works....all the way back to Pterodactyls..


THEN to take the Kennedy Space Center tour down here in Florida, my wife was a Florida gal, but when we dating, she expressed doubts about the moon landing........SO a trip I had taken to the space center with my kids 18 years ago, and we saw a Shuttle launch from the causeway.....and did the tour of course.....so we went down and when leaving, I asked if she changed her opinion about the moon landing......

OH YEH!!!!!.....it's REAL!!!!!


:D:D:yahoo::devil:
 
Pretty impressive. Makes me wonder though, given the time they were talking about, which came first? Ours or theirs?
 
The US Space Shuttle program started in the late 1960s, with the basic design settled on in the early 1970s. The Buran program started around 1974. How much of the design might have been lifted from the US program, and how much is just concurrent design based on the technology of the day, I don't know.

On the other hand, despite their similarities, the Concorde and the TU-144 were essentially separate design programs that ended up at the same basic point due to the laws of aerodynamics and 1960s materials science.
 
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