٠٠:٠٤:٠٣Mandatory credit: 00:00-00:28 - Museum Complex in Verkhnyaya Pyshma
The only Russian reusable spacecraft of the Buran-class was delivered for restoration to the Museum Complex of Military and Civil Equipment in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia's Ural region.
Drone footage captured in July shows the Soviet-made space shuttle being transported on a lorry and a barge, while Monday’s video features the spacecraft being installed in the exhibition space.
According to Elena Filatova, the museum’s executive director, this particular model was "the first flying prototype of the spacecraft and the last one remaining and available in Russia".
"It’s named Baikal, to be more accurate. It was transported to us from central Russia. It was quite an interesting logistical project to deliver it here," she said. "It took us quite some time to plan in advance as to how it would be transported, how it would be faster, how it would be safer, how it would be more convenient to deliver it."
The deputy director for exhibitions Vadim Vagin stated that the third Buran orbiter was intended to complete 'one hundred flights'.
"It was supposed that spacecraft of this programme could make several dozens, even a hundred flights, because the Buran that was launched in 1988 used up only one percent of its operation life, according to some estimations. So, if we make a simple calculation, it could’ve flown back and forth almost a hundred times," he explained.
According to the museum’s press service, a separate pavilion will be built to house the spacecraft after its restoration.
"We have large-scale and very complex work ahead of us. In the future, we will build a special pavilion for it and open an exhibition dedicated to the Soviet Buran space programme," the statement read.
The Buran program was a Soviet reusable spacecraft project designed to develop orbital vehicles for delivering spacecraft, cosmonauts, and supplies to orbit and returning them to Earth. The program started in 1974 as a response to the US Space Shuttle program and was officially suspended in 1993.
The first and last launch of Buran took place on November 15, 1988 from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
'It could’ve flown back and forth almost a hundred times' - Russia’s only reusable Buran spacecraft to be restored in Ural region
The only Russian reusable spacecraft of the Buran-class was delivered for restoration to the Museum Complex of Military and Civil Equipment in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia's Ural region.
Drone footage captured in July shows the Soviet-made space shuttle being transported on a lorry and a barge, while Monday’s video features the spacecraft being installed in the exhibition space.
According to Elena Filatova, the museum’s executive director, this particular model was "the first flying prototype of the spacecraft and the last one remaining and available in Russia".
"It’s named Baikal, to be more accurate. It was transported to us from central Russia. It was quite an interesting logistical project to deliver it here," she said. "It took us quite some time to plan in advance as to how it would be transported, how it would be faster, how it would be safer, how it would be more convenient to deliver it."
The deputy director for exhibitions Vadim Vagin stated that the third Buran orbiter was intended to complete 'one hundred flights'.
"It was supposed that spacecraft of this programme could make several dozens, even a hundred flights, because the Buran that was launched in 1988 used up only one percent of its operation life, according to some estimations. So, if we make a simple calculation, it could’ve flown back and forth almost a hundred times," he explained.
According to the museum’s press service, a separate pavilion will be built to house the spacecraft after its restoration.
"We have large-scale and very complex work ahead of us. In the future, we will build a special pavilion for it and open an exhibition dedicated to the Soviet Buran space programme," the statement read.
The Buran program was a Soviet reusable spacecraft project designed to develop orbital vehicles for delivering spacecraft, cosmonauts, and supplies to orbit and returning them to Earth. The program started in 1974 as a response to the US Space Shuttle program and was officially suspended in 1993.
The first and last launch of Buran took place on November 15, 1988 from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Mandatory credit: 00:00-00:28 - Museum Complex in Verkhnyaya Pyshma
The only Russian reusable spacecraft of the Buran-class was delivered for restoration to the Museum Complex of Military and Civil Equipment in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia's Ural region.
Drone footage captured in July shows the Soviet-made space shuttle being transported on a lorry and a barge, while Monday’s video features the spacecraft being installed in the exhibition space.
According to Elena Filatova, the museum’s executive director, this particular model was "the first flying prototype of the spacecraft and the last one remaining and available in Russia".
"It’s named Baikal, to be more accurate. It was transported to us from central Russia. It was quite an interesting logistical project to deliver it here," she said. "It took us quite some time to plan in advance as to how it would be transported, how it would be faster, how it would be safer, how it would be more convenient to deliver it."
The deputy director for exhibitions Vadim Vagin stated that the third Buran orbiter was intended to complete 'one hundred flights'.
"It was supposed that spacecraft of this programme could make several dozens, even a hundred flights, because the Buran that was launched in 1988 used up only one percent of its operation life, according to some estimations. So, if we make a simple calculation, it could’ve flown back and forth almost a hundred times," he explained.
According to the museum’s press service, a separate pavilion will be built to house the spacecraft after its restoration.
"We have large-scale and very complex work ahead of us. In the future, we will build a special pavilion for it and open an exhibition dedicated to the Soviet Buran space programme," the statement read.
The Buran program was a Soviet reusable spacecraft project designed to develop orbital vehicles for delivering spacecraft, cosmonauts, and supplies to orbit and returning them to Earth. The program started in 1974 as a response to the US Space Shuttle program and was officially suspended in 1993.
The first and last launch of Buran took place on November 15, 1988 from Baikonur Cosmodrome.