(Remastered) Energia-Buran programme

You may sponsor the creation of new videos via: , Buran (Snowstorm) was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Buran programme - Soviet reusable spacecraft project. The only orbital launch of the Buran-class orbiter occurred on 15 November 1988. Buran was lifted into space, on an unmanned mission, by the specially designed Energia rocket. After the first flight of a Buran shuttle, the project was suspended due to lack of funds and the political situation in the Soviet Union. On 12 May 2002 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome the MIK 112 hangar collapsed as a result of poor maintenance. The collapse killed eight workers and destroyed the craft as well as an Energia carrier rocket. The Dynamic Test Stand (SDI) and Assembly and Fueling Facility (MZK) on Site 112A are no longer being used and have not been refurbished for years. The MZK now serves a storage facility for two full-scale orbiters (the 2K flight vehicle and the OK-MT engineering test model). The SDI