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Buran spacecraft

Set up in response to the American space program, the "Бура́н" space program was the Soviet Union's most ambitious project before its collapse.
In order to maintain a balance of power during this Cold War period, the Soviets decided to build 5 space shuttles, of which only 2 were completed, and where only one flew into orbit on November 15, 1988.
But lack of money and a highly unstable political regime meant that the remaining shuttles never saw the light of day, and the space program came to an end with the collapse of the USSR.
As a result, the 2 shuttle models "Buran" and "Ptichka" remained hidden in the Baikonur cosmodrome, frozen in time.
Unfortunately, in 2002, the roof of the hangar housing the "Buran" shuttle - the only one to have made an orbital flight - collapsed, destroying it forever.
However, in an abandoned hangar a few hundred meters away, lies the remnant of the "Ptichka" shuttle, which has become a priceless grail for urban explorers from all over the world.

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