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Abandoned Deep-Space Communications Center - Russia
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The Buran being prepared for transport to the launch site.
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Source: buran-energia.com
The Buran is like something out of a cool but implausible Cold War sci-fi movie. The Soviet Space Program made a recolor of the N.A.S.A. space shuttle. The cockpit interior looked basically the same as the space shuttle’s, but with more gauges. There were five external fuel tanks, because three external fuel tanks just wasn’t cool enough. The most awesomely ridiculous part is the team of four diesel locomotives that moved it from site to site on special railroad tracks.
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Source: buran-energia.com
Soyuz Transportnyi Modifitsirovannyi Antropometricheskii 7 departing International Space Station, April 9, 2006.
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Source: spaceflight.nasa.gov
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Vintage Spacesuits
Left: U.S. Mercury spacesuit from 1959
Right: Soviet Strizh spacesuit from 1988
(Image: Bonhams/Bournemouth News/Rex)
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Cosmonaut helmet on display at the Beyond Planet Earth exhibit.
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Vostok-1 from Flying Fish Models. Read the review by Scott Van Aken.
I’ve concluded that everything made by the Soviet Space Program looked like something from Doctor Who.
Source: modelingmadness.com