Buran-Energia

I decided to decrease the price of the Buran encyclopedia. Until now the price of the encyclopedia for downloading was the same that the CD version. Now the price is 30% less expensive, 14$ for the CD and 36$ for the complete set.

Do not hesitate to cross the step because this encyclopaedia is the most complete source of information about the Buran Energia project (SPIRAL SPRING, BOR, MAKS) and contains numerous exclusive documents and videos which are not available on-line (and nowhere else on internet).

The US Air Force has announced that it is developing an unmanned reusable spaceplane, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The first launch is in 2008 on an Atlas V rocket. The X-37B will be one-fourth the size of the Space Shuttle and serve as a testbed for technologies for future reusable spacecraft.

This is the first project to make an unmanned spacecraft since Buran.

GAC Logistics UK (service of goods transport) welcomed the Antonov An-225 Mriya, to the UK at Nottingham East Midlands Airport today. It was chartered to return sound and stage equipment from the first annual “This Day” festival staged in Lagos (former capital of Nigeria) to mark the 46th anniversary of Nigerian independence.

“It is really exciting to see the Antonov at East Midlands,” said Bronwyn Mead, Manager of GAC Logistics‘ East Midlands. branch.

“We needed to charter an aircraft of such dimensions because of the sheer volume of equipment and the critical timescales we were facing,” says Martin Corr from Sound Moves, who partnered GAC in this transportation operation.

“The ‘This Day’ festival was a massive event held in the glare of the world’s publicity spotlight – there was absolutely no margin for error. We chose GAC Logistics to clear the return of the equipment to the UK because our two companies always work well together to meet the needs of the music industry.”

As you can see I have changed the pagination of the column ‘News’ to adopt the structure of a Blog. It will allow me to manage more easily posts and especially will allow you to react to the site’s news through comments, to post remarks and further informations.

Indeed, although the Buran Energia project is old of more than 20 years it is very difficult to obtain viable informations about it, that’s why if you have informations, documents or remarks do not hesitate to inform me.

New videos on Buran.

Addition of photos of the inside and the outside of the OK-M mock-up shuttle.

Addition of photos of the inside of the OK-GLI analog shuttle, its dismantling and the exposition in Sydney.

The Antonov 225-Mriya landed today at the international airport of Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina). Its mission will be to carriage a 121 tons portable power plant to the eastern African nation of Tanzania.