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This is an "unmanned" Topic on the Manned section of Unmannedspaceflight

Buran resting place will be in southern germany : http://www.space.com/news/080409-buran-germany.html

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"How the Soviets Stole a Space Shuttle"

"How the Soviet Space Shuttle Fizzled"

What utter rubbish. Reading these biased hachet-jobs, one would think that the Buran orbiters were some sort of stolen xerox-copy of the US Shuttle. That is complete nonsense. The Buran orbiter was an aerodynamic copy of the Shuttle because that is what the customer (Soviet Military) wanted, ie a like-for-like equivalent of what they believed would be a strategic weapon system. From the outside it looks very similar (especially to technically-challenged journalists) but internally the Buran was engineered indigenously using Soviet technology & engineering practises.

This shoddy and parochial "journalism" is just another example refusing to give the Soviets appropriate recognition for their acheivements. Mean spirited and petty, some people just don't get that the Cold War is over.