An in-depth look in to Russia's abandoned Buran space shuttles in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
One French citizen died from dehydration and another has been detainedAn urban explorer has died after trying to walk to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from which Russia launches its rockets into space.
Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Progress MS-27 space cargo ship lifts off from the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, May 30, 2024 Officials later told Russia's TASS news service that the Frenchmen were trekking through territory near the cosmodrome when one of them became ill.
Once they arrived, they snuck into a facility dedicated to housing old Soviet and Russian space technology which has simply been left to rust in the desert - including a pair of decommissioned shuttles prototypes from the Buran Space Programme. The Soyuz rocket is seen after being rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in KazakhstanThe Buran programme was an attempt to rival the American Space Shuttle, and the two Soviet prototypes sitting in a warehouse in Baikonur bear a striking resemblance to US Space Shuttle Colombia
'This information allowed Soviet military industries to save years of scientific research and testing time as well as millions of rubles as they developed their own very similar space shuttle vehicle.' Skyrocketing costs meant the Buran programme was mothballed in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and never took humans into space
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