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Dutch NOS news just reported the Buran space shuttle arrived in the port of Rotterdam en-route to the the technical museum at Speyer. Apparantly the plane will be sailing by barge over the river Rhine the 6th of april.
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Teknik Museum Speyer already has it listed on their website here:Originally posted by Petertenthije
The exact GPS location of the Buran right now is here:The Thrilling Transport of the Russian Space Shuttle BURAN to the Technik MUSEUM SPEYER
On Thursday, 6 March 2008, the space shuttle was loaded in Manama/Bahrain on board ship. The hull of the space shuttle was heaved into the bilge, the wings were stored on deck. In the early hours, at 05:30 local time, the vessel with the space shuttle on board was steering into the Arabian Gulf without fuss and feathers.
To get from the storage site to the seagoing vessel the BURAN was first loaded onto a pontoon. From there the space shuttle was heaved onto the deck of an ocean freighter by the vessel’s own cranes.
The route was then leading via the Arabian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in the direction of Suez. The museum’s team is happy to report that the vessel has left the Suez Canal behind and is now navigating the Mediterranean Sea with course to the Straits of Gibraltar. Thereafter it will be passing Portugal and France en route to the English Channel and on to Rotterdam.
In Rotterdam the shuttle will be prepared for land transport. The frames for oceangoing transport will have to be altered for the subsequent transport of the shuttle on a low-loader. Thereafter the space shuttle will be loaded onto a pontoon-boat which will navigate the river Rhine in a tug formation from Rotterdam to Speyer.
Arrival in Speyer is expected to take place in the second week of April.
The Museum is planning to have everything ready by mid-summer. Many members and friends of the Museum are already eagerly looking forward to seeing the space shuttle up close.
Also a few interesting links here:
Terry
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Better be displayed at Speyer as another top valuable attraction than roting at some unaccessible place. Congrats for the museum in conducting this another patient and intricate deal. I now can't wait what they will bring back next
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Where was Buran before ? Is it the original one which was located in Gorki Park in Moscow ?
Saw it there in 2006
edit : never mind I found the info : There are two Burans in the neighbourhood of Moscow: a "real" one at Zhukovsky Air Base, which is not open the public, and a fake one which is a cafe in Gorki Park
Last edited by Alex - Spot-This !; 2008-04-07, 22:22.Comment
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Buran is currently at Krefeld, Germany and is on a barge which is following the Rhine River according to the GPS location from the following website. If you're somewhere near the Rhine, and can access the river somewhere between Krefeld and Speyer you should be able to get a few pictures in transit.
The exact GPS location of the Buran right now is here (login and passwords supplied):
The Buran which is being moved to Technik Museum Speyer is
Russian scientists in 1976 developed a new space system that was very similar to the US space shuttle. The new space shuttle was named Buran, which translates in Russian to "snow storm". When compared, there are a few differences between the Russian Buran and the US Space Shuttle. The Buran is bigger than all the American counterparts. Moreover, unmanned flights were possible with the Buran.
The Buran 002 is the test version of the shuttle, with engines, used between 1984 and 1988 for a total of 25 atmospheric flights.
Because of the enormous cost, the Russian Buran Project was canceled by Russian president Michael Gorbachev after its first successful space flight in 1988.
How did the Technik Museum Sinsheim/Speyer come to own Buran? The Buran at stake had been at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, brought there on loan for exhibition to the public. After the display in Australia, the Buran went on exhibition in Manama, Bahrain. The Buran then was moved to the Manama port where it was stored in a closed storage space.
The museum team followed the Buran for over 10 years. After the exhibition in Bahrain, the museum bought the Russian Buran from its owners. The purchase contract noted that the Buran was free of third party claims but a short time after the signing, the museum learned of a businessman from Singapore, who claimed ownership before a Bahraini court. More here: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Foru...ML/000038.htmlTerry
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On the Road Again
Buran on the move - leaving Krefeld.
Terry
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The fake copy was reprotedly the one which attended LBG airshow atop the AN225Comment
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Don't suppose you been to Sinsheim/Speyer yet? Been there 3 years ago and noticed that their outdoor collection for a large part looked in a bad state. Not just in need of a paint job, quite a bit of corrosion to. The way the planes are positioned, for the most part on the top of poles in rather awkward positions, does not really make it easier to conduct maintenance either.Originally posted by uy707Better be displayed at Speyer as another top valuable attraction than roting at some unaccessible place. Congrats for the museum in conducting this another patient and intricate deal. I now can't wait what they will bring back nextComment
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Well, their collection will never fly again. Congrats on another good dealings with the Russians..."The real CEO of the 787 project is named Potemkin"Comment
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Totally true that they won't fly again. Here's a picture of Buran 002 when it did fly. It was actually capable of taking off from a runway under jet engine power and then glided in to the runway like the U.S. shuttle. I wonder if the jet engines gave it the ability to go around??Originally posted by Alessandro
Here are a few images of the Buran on the move to Speyer:
From Der Spiegel
Terry
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