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"Buran" in Gorky Park
"Buran" is an orbital spacecraft of the Soviet reusable transport space system (MTSC), created as part of the Energia-Buran program. One of the two MTKK orbital vehicles implemented in the world, Buran was a response to a similar American Space Shuttle project. Buran made its first and only space flight on November 15, 1988. The spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using an Energia launch vehicle. The flight duration was 205 minutes, the ship made two orbits around the Earth, after which it landed at the Yubileiny airfield in Baikonur. The flight took place without a crew in automatic mode using an on-board computer and on-board software.
Now the permanent residence of the shuttle is the park named after. Gorky, where everyone can see it. since it is in the open air. Americans are much more careful about their decommissioned shuttles. For example, the shuttle Enterprise, so named after numerous requests from fans of the TV series STAR TREK (Star Trek), was on display at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Virginia from 2003 to 2012; in June 2012, its place was taken by the shuttle " Discovery, which has been in service since August 30, 1984, and Enterprise, was installed on a floating aviation museum on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in New York in June 2012, where it was covered with an inflatable pavilion.
