Russian museum to restore surviving orbiter from Buran shuttle programme

Baikal orbiter 2.01-c-Verkhnyaya Pyshma museum complex

Source: Verkhnyaya Pyshma museum complex

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s arrival.

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