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Re:Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program by bbg on Sunday October 25, 2009 @01:29PM (#901809)
Very interesting. Strangely, no mention of the hangar collapse that destroyed the Buran. At least that's what happened if Wikipedia and this picture from buran.ru can be trusted:

http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/bbur89.jpg

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Re:Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program by borism on Monday October 26, 2009 @06:55PM (#904340)
There were 5 production and 8 mock-up vehicles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program#Current_status

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