{"id":6880774,"date":"2026-07-23T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=6880774"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:31:15","slug":"buran-soviet-space-shuttle-flew-once-hangar-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/buran-soviet-space-shuttle-flew-once-hangar-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Buran: lo shuttle sovietico che vol\u00f2 una volta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>On 15 November 1988, a spacecraft that looked almost exactly like the American Space Shuttle rose from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a pillar of flame, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself on a runway in a 60&nbsp;km\/h crosswind &mdash; with no one aboard and no one flying it. It was called Buran, Russian for &ldquo;snowstorm.&rdquo; It performed flawlessly. And it never flew again.<\/p><p>The story of the Soviet shuttle is one of the strangest in spaceflight: a machine of genuine brilliance, built for reasons of fear rather than need, flown once to prove a point, and then left to rot in a hangar until the roof fell on it. To look at Buran is to see a road not taken &mdash; and a cautionary tale about what happens when an empire builds something magnificent it cannot afford to use.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:8px;padding:20px;margin:24px 0\"><div style=\"font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;margin-bottom:10px\">Informazioni rapide<\/div><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;width:100%\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Vehicle<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Buran orbiter 1.01 (&ldquo;snowstorm&rdquo;)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Nation<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Unione Sovietica<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">First &amp; only flight<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">15 November 1988<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Volo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Uncrewed, 2 orbits, ~3 hours, autoland<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Launcher<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Energia super-heavy rocket<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Destino<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Crushed in 2002 hangar collapse<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A twin, but not a copy<\/h2><p>The USSR did not want a shuttle. Soviet engineers argued, correctly, that their expendable rockets were cheaper and simpler. But the American Shuttle looked, to Moscow&rsquo;s strategists, like it might drop weapons from orbit or snatch Soviet satellites &mdash; and so, in 1976, the Politburo ordered a counterpart. More than a thousand enterprises were pulled into the effort.<\/p><p>From the outside, Buran and the American orbiter are near-identical &mdash; the same delta wing, the same black-and-white heat shield. Underneath, they diverge sharply. The US orbiter carried three main engines and lit them at launch. Buran carried none. All the muscle came from the Energia rocket beneath it, a super-heavy booster powerful enough to loft a hundred tonnes on its own. That made Buran a true payload, and Energia a launcher that could serve other missions.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CwLx4L5NRU0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1414540744  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/buran-energia-launch-stack.jpg\" alt=\"Buran orbiter on the Energia rocket\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Buran mounted on the Energia launcher, which provided all the thrust at liftoff. Image: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The other difference was the one that mattered most on 15 November 1988. The American Shuttle always landed by hand; a commander flew it down. Buran flew its entire mission &mdash; ascent to touchdown &mdash; on its own computers. As it approached the runway it made an unplanned, low-probability manoeuvre to bleed off energy, briefly convincing controllers it had gone wrong. It hadn&rsquo;t. It swept round and greased the landing.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Our standard landing mode was automatic. The idea was the pilot merely sits tight in his seat keeping his hands off the joystick. As soon as he lays hands on the steering rod, Buran&rsquo;s automatic system is turned off.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Alexander Laveikin<\/strong> &mdash; Cosmonaut, Buran programme<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;margin:2em 0\"><blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/space\/comments\/1t88pgg\/assembling_the_buran_spacecraft_while_the\/\">Assembling the Buran spacecraft \u2014 autopilot years ahead of its time<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One perfect flight<\/h2><p>The numbers were extraordinary for 1988: a fully automated orbital flight and a hands-off landing in a crosswind, a feat the Americans never attempted. Buran shed only a handful of its tens of thousands of heat-shield tiles. The engineers who built the runway were so meticulous, one story goes, that the chief designer drove a car along it with a glass of water on the hood to check for bumps. Not a drop spilled.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=249397818  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/buran-ok-gli-technik-museum-speyer.jpg\" alt=\"Buran test orbiter OK-GLI at Speyer\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The surviving OK-GLI test orbiter, now at the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>And then history intervened. The Soviet Union was months from crisis and years from collapse. A second orbiter, Ptichka, was nearly finished; more were on the jigs. But the money evaporated. The programme was formally cancelled in 1993, having flown exactly once.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLOCQw5s9Uw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The roof falls in<\/h2><p>The flown orbiter, 1.01, was rolled into an assembly building at Baikonur and largely forgotten. On 12 May 2002, the roof of that hangar &mdash; poorly maintained, its structure neglected &mdash; collapsed during repair work. It destroyed the only Buran ever to reach space and killed eight workers on the roof. The machine that had flown a flawless mission was crushed under falling concrete, never having flown a second time.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;The runway there was ideal. When it was still being built, soldiers literally polished it by hand. I saw them do that myself.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Alexander Laveikin<\/strong> &mdash; Cosmonaut, Buran programme<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Survivors remain: an atmospheric test article now sits in a German museum at Speyer; the near-complete Ptichka still waits at Baikonur. They are monuments to a paradox &mdash; one of the most sophisticated flying machines ever built, flown once, and then abandoned by the country that made it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#888;font-style:italic;margin-top:28px\">Sources: RussianSpaceWeb; TASS\/Roscosmos; Smithsonian; space.com; Spaceflight Now (2002).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Post correlati<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/un-aereo-da-225-milioni-di-metri-il-piu-grande-mai-costruito\/\">L&#039;An-225 Mriya: il pi\u00f9 grande aereo mai costruito.<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/bereznyak-isayev-bi-1-intercettore-missilistico-sovietico\/\">Stalin&rsquo;s Rocket Plane and the Devil&rsquo;s Broomstick<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/star-trek-enterprise-prototype-model-authenticated-may-2026\/\">The First Star Trek &lsquo;Enterprise&rsquo; Model Is Finally Authenticated<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 November 1988, a spacecraft that looked almost exactly like the American Space Shuttle rose from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a pillar of flame, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself on a runway in a 60&nbsp;km\/h crosswind &mdash; with no one aboard and no one flying it. 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