A different kind of Barn Find
 

Not sure if you guys have seen this, or it was posted already, but this is amazing:

Man Noticed This Abandoned Hangar But Whats Inside Caught Him By Surprise » Design You Trust. Design, Culture & Society.

A guy in my group here at work did stress analyses on the Buran shuttles...

That's freaky.

Here is a photo of the launch site.

Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1436900054.jpg

A little soundtrack music to go along with the barn find.......

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This linkbait has been posted around the interweb so many times, even Stevie Wonder has seen it.

We'll I haven't seen this before, and find it amazing and a bit sad as an expression of the changing times.
Stunning, thanks for sharing

Cheers Richard

At least this time, you only had one page to visit to see all the pictures. I absolutely hate those "20th worst/best/scariest...." where they want you to advance to another page to see. I click on the first picture then bail.


That was a cool page. Russia seems to be collapsing around itself. There's been quite a bit of news/propaganda lately that the Russian military is in complete disrepair with malfunctioning ships and crashing airplanes. Hopefully none of their nukes will spontaneously go off.

Mike, stop teasing... what did the stress analysis reveal? Could it have made it to orbit and back multiple times like US Shuttles?

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

+++ That was a cool read.

Its wild to think how many hundred of millions of dollars they spent building the Buran, and that facility and then one day just flicked the lights off, walked out, and forgot about them like that.

That is totally mind boggling.

So is it a fact that they stole our design for the shuttle or we both came up with the same design working independently?

There's a ton more pages like that one here: abandoned | English Russia

Times changed even more since those photos were taken.
The hangar collapsed 13 years ago, destroying K1 - which was the only one of the two that ever flew. Seven workers were also killed in the collapse.

http://www.kosmograd.com/newsfeed/im...angar_112b.jpg

What remains of K2 is now stored in Kazakhstan.

Group buy of a space shuttle anyone?

I had not seen these pictures. Thanks for sharing this Nick.

Ran when parked.

How absolutely awesome would that be to walk around that place looking at all the unfinished projects without an anal tour guide or a large group ruining the moment.

Amazing that the ceramic tiles were falling off from a static vehicle in the earth's atmosphere. How would they have fared on take-off, the journey into space, and more importantly during re-entry.
Or does Russian tile adhesive have a limited life warning on the packaging?

Thanks for the laugh.:D