[FPSPACE] Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" Space Program

[Bart Hendrickx]

The pictures purporting to show the Baykal launch are indeed photoshopped,
but not the three images showing an orbiter with the name "Baykal" during
pre-flight testing. Baykal was the name originally painted on the first
flight vehicle. Indications are that the vehicle was renamed Buran in May
1988, just prior to an experimental roll-out to the launch pad. Until 1987
Buran had been a generic name used to refer to the combination of rocket and
orbiter (until the name "Energiya" was coined for the rocket in May 1987).
In 1988 it became the name of an individual orbiter, namely the vehicle that
flew the one and only Soviet shuttle mission in November 1988.

Bart Hendrickx

From: "Gunter Krebs" <gunter.krebs at skyrocket.de>


> Fake, photoshoped images:
>
> see: http://www.k26.com/buran/Info/Site_F_A_Q_/buran_f_a_q_.html
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> Gunter Krebs
> http://space.skyrocket.de
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> 2007/11/27, James Oberg <jeoberg at comcast.net>:
> >
> > So what is the consensus on this reported 'Baykal' follow-on Buran-class
> > orbiter?
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> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4 at msn.com>
> > To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:54 PM
> > Subject: [FPSPACE] Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" Space Program
> >
> >
> > > Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" Space Program
> > >
> > >
> >
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/rare-photos-of-russian-buran-space.html
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> > >
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