Re:Space Shuttle vs. Buran
by epicureanideal on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:28PM
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This article says the detached boosters fire rockets as they are landing and deploy landing gear. Was that ever demonstrated to work? I'm curious of there is precedent for this prior to SpaceX or just wishful thinking.
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The boosters as tested did not. It were plans for a later revision of the launch system, which were cancelled due to eyewatering costs (– by Soviet standards, the US wouldn't have been able to do a single Shuttle launch for the price of the entire Buran program).