Re:Photos from inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome
by locokoko on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:14AM
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"It was the first space shuttle to perform an unmanned flight, including landing in fully automatic mode."
"[...] despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres per hour (38.0 mph), it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target mark."
"[...] despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres per hour (38.0 mph), it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target mark."
That sounds pretty impressive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29