Assembling the Buran spacecraft; while the American Space shuttle needed a pilot on board, the Buran was traveling with autopilot, cutting-edge for the time, USSR, 1980s.
by Suspicious-Slip248
Assembling the Buran spacecraft; while the American Space shuttle needed a pilot on board, the Buran was traveling with autopilot, cutting-edge for the time, USSR, 1980s.
by Suspicious-Slip248
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Funny how it looks like a copy/paste of the space shuttle
This was the first ever space shuttle to make an uncrewed flight including an automatic landing. The place is Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan which is leased to Russia until 2050. The Cosmodrome is also world’s first and largest space launch facility. This particular hangar where Buran was kept fell in a sever storm in the 2000’s and badly damaged the shuttle.
I thought I heard that most or all Soviet manned space vehicles have no pilot controls and were just controlled with autopilot or from the ground.
Auroland was a cutting edge technology… in the 1960s.
Space shuttle was technically capable of automatic landing except in needed manual input for some critical actions such as lowering the landing gear. This was not automated for safety reasons.
Later, space shuttle was modified for fully automatic landing with a cable than connected radio to flight computer
This is propaganda, it never flew, it was abandoned on the launch pad, I saw it sitting on the launch pad collecting rust.
Well, that’s one way to put it.
According to Wikipedia the Buran only had one single unmanned mission before the program was stopped.
What autopilot? Vodka in the hangars? 🤣
Where did it travel to with this autopilot?, it also had a 6 CD changer and subwoofers that never saw a launch pad .
They have it displayed in Gorki park in Moscow. Pretty cool to take a stroll and just walk past a spaceship.
It’s too bad they never really used it besides that one test flight
Oh man, the cope is brutal here.
Ersatz Space Shuttle with decades old gimmic technology added. Oh yeah, impressive.
lol. Read Feynman’s report and educate yourself. The shuttle had complete autopilot and the only reason the landing gear was operated manually was to give the “pilot” some sense of control.
Partial rip-off of the space shuttle. Some of that is aerodynamics and some is just espionage. Too bad the Russians never got to fly it manned, though. Would have been cool to see, imagine the U.S. and U.S.S.R shuttles flying in formation!
The shuttle had a state of the art Autopilot system
German museum bought one while they were rotting away. You can see it in its full glory in the [Technik Museum Speyer](https://www.technik-museum.de/de/entdecken/exponate/space-shuttle-buran/)