[FPSPACE] Buran coming to Germany

[Brett Harrison]

I have fond memories of touring BTS-002 when it was in Sydney.
(It cost extra to sit in the cockpit, but it was worth it!)

I'm glad it's finally getting a good home.



Brett Harrison
AUSTRALIA


Bart Hendrickx wrote:
> It looks like a deal has finally been reached to ship the BTS-002 vehicle
> from Bahrain to Germany, where it will become a permanent exhibit at the
> Technik Museum Speyer (about 1 hour south of Frankfurt airport).  This is
> reported by Russian Buran expert Vadim Lukashevich on his website at
> http://www.buran.ru/htm/news.htm
> 
> BTS-002 is the full-scale Buran model that was used for approach and landing
> tests in the 1980s. The vehicle left Russia in 1999, when it was shipped to
> Sydney, Australia and put on display during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
> It was later transported to Bahrain to be displayed at the 2002 Summer
> Festival, but eventually ended up in a junkyard. Museum officials left for
> Bahrain on 27 February to make final arrangements. BTS-002 is expected to
> leave Bahrain in the next two to three months for a 23-day journey by sea to
> the port of Rotterdam. There it will be transferred to a barge and
> transported to its final destination via rivers and canals.  A building is
> under construction on the museum's premises to house BTS-002 (see the
> picture on the website).
> 
>  
> 
> Bart Hendrickx
> 
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