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Russia's abandoned space shuttles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in pictures

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I didn't know that Russian have a space shuttles program.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ace-shuttles-at-the-baikonur-cosmodrome-in-p/
 
Yes they had a pretty solid space shuttle programme. It was known as Buran if my memory serves me right. I think we all have seen that iconic photograph of An-225 piggybacking their space shuttle.

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Looking at such photos, I feel the same thing that the citizens of Rome probably felt after the fall of the empire into the hands of the barbarians ...
 

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