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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

I have been collecting photos from Buran Energiya from before the first and last flight of Buran, and for a long time I haven't seen any of the photos you have posted.

Nice details can now be seen.

Fantastic photos.

Many thanks for shharing

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Dec 6, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

About UR-700, UR-700M and UR-700A , what is available in Russia for a Russian enthusiast about history of yhe Soviet Space projects never fulfilled, speacialy the ones of Vladimir Tchelomey.

In videos from canal TV ZVEZDA I got some (vey few) footage from the books of the projects.

And thete is a lot to be unveiled about the works of Tchelomey manned Lunar and Mars projects and manned and unmanned space winged projects such as R2 and many others and also the "Huge rockets capable of launcing more than 750 tons.

Is there any offical publication from Machinostroyennie about all those projects available in Russia? Russian

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Dec 6, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

And Buran.su site by Vadim Lukashevith still working ;)

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Vadim is the world expert on spaceplanes, Soviet or USA, as far as I'm concerned!

Such a shame his book is out of print.

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Sure 146%!!!

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I do have this book on paper snd a digital version, if anyone is interested in it, let me know and how to send it.

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Dec 6, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

Mario, I have a lot of Buran BTS-02 (horizontal flight prototype) from Speyer Technical Museum

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Please don’t promote giving away copyrighted material

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@Nick , don't worry - I mentioned the photos, made by myself at the museum...

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There's more to come, Maks at https://buranarchive.space is doing an amazing job or restoring barely detectable levels of colour...

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

Photo 7 is the Blok Ya launch table adapter, a pretty cool piece of hardware!

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Good to know, thanks!

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