Buran-Energia

Here is the official video of the carriage (done for the museum) of the shuttle OK-GLI to the Speyer museum in Germany.

Thanks to Elser-film.

Here is 2 videos of the transportation of the OK-GLI shuttle to the Speyer museum in Germany.

Here is some pictures of the Buran’s transport along the Rhine.

I’m back ! After 11 days of holidays to see at the launch of the Soyuz TMA-12 at Baikonur I’m back home. Unfortunatly I losed a major event, the carriage of the Buran OK-GLI to the SPEYER museum.

I will try to make up by posting a summary in pictures.

And by making a little travel diary of my journey at Baikonur.

The Buran test shuttle OK-GLI should arrive at Rotterdam today, after a long journey from Bahrain through 2 oceans and many seas. It will be unloaded at the Gevelco terminal in the Botlek

It was carried by boat from Bahrain by the Finnish company Procargo, which already carried it 8 years ago for the Sydney exhibition during the Olympic Games of 2000.
From Rotterdam it will be transported, on Saturday by lighter on the Rhine, all the way to the Speyer museum by the Netherlands company Van Der Wees. This company is specialized into the carrying of big loads and already worked with the museum because they took care of the Concorde and the Boeing 747.
The shuttle will arrive at the Speyer museum in the second week of April.

Update:

Unloading of the shuttle.

Here is a serie of pictures of the test shuttle OK-M taken in January 2007.

OK-MT was built in Moscow in 1983 for technological developments, the transport documentation development and loading of the gas tanks, the hermetic systems of safety, the entry and the exit of the crew, the development of the military operations, the maintenance and the flight manuals.

Here is some pictures of the 2.01 Buran shuttle taken at the begining of the year before on the TMZ’s parking at Tushino (near Moscow).

Unfortunately, the shuttle (or what there is left) is subjected to the bad weather and in not so many years it will be good to be put in a wasteland.

Here is the video of the transportation of the shuttle Buran OK-GLI to the Rotterdam harbor.

Other videos here.

Source: Elser-film.