... In the course of the BURAN orbiter development, suborbital and orbital launches of BOR-4 and BOR-5 flight vehicles have been produced for aerodynamic analysis and working capacity of thermal protection structures verification. ... The flights of the SPIRAL prototype and BOR-4 and BOR-5 flying vehicles have allowed not only to speed up the BURAN orbiter development, but also to justify the choice of the aerodynamic scheme of the orbital stage of the advanced MAKS aerospace system. ... Buran Orbiter ....

... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Town of Baikonur residential area of the Cosmodrome . ... For receipt, temporary storage and standalone processing of payloads (including, if necessary, filling with propellant and compressed gases), as well as for preparation, integration and encapsulation of the Space Head Module (SHM), ISC Kosmotras offers an Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB), Fueling Station and office premises located at Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

Main . ... About meteorites . ... Museum . ... Museum of extraterrestial material . ... The Laboratory has two divisions, the central division at the Vernadsky Institute in Moscow and a cosmochemistry division headed by Dr. V. A. Alekseev in Chernogolovka. ... The Laboratory holds the Russian lunar sample collection, the meteorite collection of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Vernadsky Institute Museum of Extraterrestrial Material and the meteorite exhibit at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum. ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...