I fancy a trip to Pripyat... my friends think I'm weird.
Not planning to start a family anyhow so radioactive goolies won't have much of an impact on my life.![]()
I would love to go too. I'm done with kids so no loss to me..

I fancy a trip to Pripyat... my friends think I'm weird.
Not planning to start a family anyhow so radioactive goolies won't have much of an impact on my life.![]()
I fancy a trip to Pripyat... my friends think I'm weird.
Not planning to start a family anyhow so radioactive goolies won't have much of an impact on my life.![]()
Really? In what way?
1) fully automated
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6) An array of other improvements that are too numerous to list, i.e. at the time id of taken the russion hop into orbit, if it had been used and maintained to this day it would have been formidable.
The actual shuttle that orbited the earth was destroyed in 2002 as the Hanger it was stored in collapsed. There were two shuttles built for space flight one was destroyed in the hanger and the other dissasembled. The other one that flew was fitted with jet engines and flown like a plane for testing purposes. There were numerous other mock ups built approx 9 that were used for testing and evaluation of the systems.
# Built models
Models for testing
# OK-GLI
# OK-TVA
# OK-M
# OK-MT
# OK-TVI
# OK-KS
Intended for space travel
# OK-1.01 (Completed an unmanned flight in space)
# OK-1.02
# OK-2.01
# OK-2.02
# OK-2.03
That thing landed itself, from orbit, in like the space?
Awesome.
So which one are we looking at?
Renovation of OK-M
After the movement of OK-M near the Baikonur’s museum, the thermal shield was renewed, they transformed the cockpit and a showroom was set up in the payload bay. Initially the cockpit was not functional because this model was intended has thermal tests, so this version of the cockpit was created from scratch.
Not only landed from the push of the launch button the complete lift off, Orbit the Earth and re-entry and landing was all automated. It was far supperior in most ways to the American shuttle.
I find that staggering, seriously amazing; the terms 'epic' and 'genius' are banded around and cheapened so I rarely use them, but in this context that is both epic and genius.
More recently, the director of Moscow's Central Machine Building Institute has said the Buran project will be reviewed in the hopes of restarting a similar manned spacecraft design, with rocket test launches as soon as 2015.