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- proper noun A Soviet
spacecraft , modeled after the AmericanSpace Shuttle .
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The Soviet copy of the space shuttle, a near-clone called the Buran, actually flew into outer space fully automated, without any astronauts whatsoever.
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It's part of the Russian equivalent called the Buran program, and what you're looking at is called the BOR-5.
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The Buran was the Soviet Union's answer to NASAs space shuttle programme.
WN.com - Articles related to Merkel: Kazakhstan to host first OSCE summit since 1999 2010
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The Buran was the Soviet Union's answer to NASAs space shuttle programme.
WN.com - Articles related to Merkel: Kazakhstan to host first OSCE summit since 1999 2010
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The story went: US passed to Soviets our plans for the shuttle from which their 'Buran' was then derived -- with multiple (five plus) copies constructed, but only one flown unmanned.
First Briefing on Human Space Flight Review - NASA Watch 2009
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It was called the Buran, It could kick the shuttle’s ass.
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This plane was built to transport the Soviet Union's "Buran" space shuttle.
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With a mockup of the defunct Russian "Buran" Space Shuttle sitting passively nearby (lower right), the Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft and its booster rocket crawl on a rail car to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan October 16, 2003, in preparation for its liftoff October 18 to carry three astronauts to the International Space Station.
Documenting Reality guttsfukk 2010
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This plane was built to transport the Soviet Union's "Buran" space shuttle.
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Hieronder staat een video van de Russische Space Shuttle 'Buran' die een tijdje geleden te koop stond en nu per boot onderweg is naar een Te ...
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