Buran-Energia

The world’s largest nonpermanent aerospace exhibition will lift off at Tsim Sha Tsui in December.

« Space Shuttle 2007, » as the exhibition is called, will feature retired space shuttle Buran and other items on loan from the Russian space program and the United States’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

« The goals of the exhibition are twofold: to provide an educational experience for visitors, and to give local tourism a boost, » Hong Kong Space Shuttle 2007 project director Karen Loh Yuk-ying said yesterday.

The highlight is the space shuttle Buran, which has been exhibited in Sydney, Australia, and in Bahrain. It is the only space shuttle ever to have been publicly displayed.

Space Shuttle 2007 opens at the West Kowloon (Hong Kong) Reclamation Area on December 12.

Official website

Here is a little animation on SPIRAL, to download it’s in the video gallery.

Even if the launcher plane and the auxiliary rocket have differences in comparison with the originals blueprints, this animation is very well done.

Here is a new set of pictures.

The first set is about Buran and Mriya.

• Mriya during a flight test with Buran.
• Loading/unloading of Buran at the Baikonur airport
• Buran and Mriya at Le Bourget 1989
• Lift off of the mriya at the end of the Bourget airshow (1989)

The next pictures were taken during the assembly of the Mriya:

The last set of pictures is about the VM-T Atlant transportation plane, we can see it carrying the Buran’s fuselage and the oxygen tank of Energia (MAKC):

Here is some pictures of the MIK building taken in 2006, we can see that since the collapse of the roof in 2002 no cleanup has been made, only a part of the roof was reinforced. We can clearly see the below of the Я block on the last picture.

Due to a failure in my internet connection, the download of the Buran’s encylopaedia was difficult those few days. I set up a new download system to solve this and now everything works perfectly.

I apologize once again for the troubles.

I added a section in the Built models part, for the OK-2.01 shuttle with inside and outside pictures, taken at the TMZ factory in Moscow.