Shuttle & Buran

Added on April 24th, 2010 by atkinson | Report Post
Tags:NASA, Technology, WTF

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Alias (#13844)

14 years ago

It seems that the US stole the soviet design…
or… wait… I be trollin’

deuce (#933)

14 years ago

Pretty bad-ass looking design… too bad it never actually worked.

conan776 (#5342)

Reply to deuce

14 years ago

Oh c’mon they only blow up like every 20 times.

Oooh, you mean the Russian one….

asymon (#4280)

14 years ago

practice & theory

Alias (#13844)

14 years ago

It did actually work.
It flew once… the orbital flight lasted 205 minutes… during that time, Buran made two full laps around the Earth
it had no pilots whatsoever
every stage of the flight was controlled by a computer
unlike the US shuttle, which is traditionally being landed manually
so… it was a pretty badass russian toy…

but still
no one gives a fuck about all that shit I just wrote (even me)

so I’ll just add some boobs to my post
(. )( .)

NoOneInParticular (#3134)

Reply to Alias

14 years ago

I marked you + for the boobs, not the info. 🙂

v0id (#10432)

Reply to NoOneInParticular

14 years ago

I marked you + for the fact that you marked him + for the boobs and not the info.

jediadept (#3758)

Reply to v0id

14 years ago

I marked you +, for the fact that you marked NoOneInParticular +, for marking Alias +, for the boobs and not the info.

-1

Alias (#13844)

Reply to jediadept

14 years ago

Marked all of you +, just because I can

JimsShip (#9729)

14 years ago

Our thrusting rockets are bigger. Just sayin’.

fuckwhatafuckingdumbfuckingfuckassfuck (#4318)

Reply to JimsShip

14 years ago

buran is longer than shuttle

natedog (#1905)

Reply to JimsShip

14 years ago

buran has a reservoir tip, also

WistfulD (#5057)

Reply to JimsShip

14 years ago

That’s because it was heavier. Given that the shuttle was already excessively heavy (because the military wanted the option of using it as a heavy lift vehicle for potential defense projects in space which never materialized), that means that this thing must have been ridiculously overbuilt.