The space program, "Energy-Buran" (1970-1999)

Abandoned launch complex, "Energy-Buran" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Launcher "Energia" is mounted with a Orbiter "Buran" at the launch complex.

Preparing to run the shuttle orbiter "Buran":

Building a fighting crew at Baikonur "cosmodrome", report the Vice-Chairman of the State Commission (synchronously).

Says Vice-President of the State Commission (synchronously).

Employees and military cosmodrome in the calculation of odds jobs.

Employees monitor the launch.

BI chief designer watches Gubanov.

Rockets 'energy' in the air.

Rejoice developers.

"Energy" on the launch pad.

Glushko at the table.

Start of "Energy"

The rocket "Energia" in the shop.

Cosmodrome "Baikonur".

Rocket "Energy" on the launch pad.

Employees monitor the launch.

BI chief designer watches Gubanov.

The launch of "Energy"

Rejoice developers.

The rocket "Energia" in the shop.

Launch pad at Baikonur.

Employees of the drawing board to size.

NGOs work in the shops of "Energy".

Scheme of the rocket on the monitor.

Rocket in the shop.

Missile test "Energy" in the shop.

The various components and assemblies missiles.

The staff at the computer.

Academician VP sits Glushko.

Telephone with the disc and arms of the Soviet Union in the middle.

Designer DC Antonov at a desk in his office.

Employees at the tables in the KB.

3M bomber airfield.

Photo: V. Myasishchev

The cockpit bomber.

ZM takeoff.

The scheme of "Energy" on the board.

The military, among them Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov at the airport.

The airplane is flying with a rocket "Energia".

Shooting from the cockpit.

Landing an aircraft with a booster.

Complex in Sergiev Posad.

Automatic gates are opened the hangar.

Academician VP says Glushko.

Booster "Energy" in the hangar.

Employees collect and verify the "energy".

Baikonur: the construction of a universal set of "Stand-start."

Talking to the designers and the military.

Rocket engine RD-170 in the shop.

Members of the State Commission and the program staff at mission control in watching the flight of the orbiter.

Transportation to the port on the streets of Moscow on a special technique of the fuselage and wings of the orbiter "Buran".

Installation of cargo on a river barge.

Barge floating on the Moscow River, opens the gate lock.

Barges on the Moscow River.

Landing orbiter "Buran" at the airfield, "Jubilee" after the flight into space.

Special equipment and experts about the "Buran" - different plans.

Experts examine the "Buran" after a flight into space.

Mission Control Center.

Monitors performance of flight parameters, "Buran".

Specialists in display screens.

The trajectory of the landing, "Burana" on the screen.

Landing orbiter "Buran" at the airfield, "Jubilee" after the flight into space.

Special equipment and experts about the "Buran" - different plans.

Experts examine the "Buran" after a flight into space.

Launcher "Energia" to set us on the Orbiter, "Buran" at the launch site - different plans.

Members of the State Commission and experts of the program "Energy-Buran" at the Center Mission Control during launch rocket "Energia" and the orbiter "Buran".

To take out the fighter runway - aircraft maintenance.

Flight of the orbiter "Buran"; landing "Burana" at the airport "Jubilee" - filmed in the airplane maintenance.

(Background talks are underway with the crew TsUPom).

The assembly of "Energy" and "Buran" in the shops: the installation of blocks, checking systems.

"Buran" taken out of the hangar.

Launcher "Energia" is mounted with a Orbiter "Buran".

"Energy" - "Snowstorm" are taken from the hangar.

Set them on the launch pad at Baikonur.

Mission Control Center.

"Energy-Buran" at the start.

Talking to members of the state commission.

Specialists in MCC.

"Energy-Buran" at the start (night plans).

Start "Energy-Buran".

Conclusion orbiter "Buran" in orbit (flight crew carried out without the automatic mode).

From the control room watching the flight of the spacecraft.

Flight of the "Buran" (taken from an airplane maintenance).

Descent and landing the orbiter on the runway a specially equipped terminal "Jubilee" at Baikonur.

Applaud gathered in Mission Control Center.

Programme specialists standing by the ship, congratulated the designer G.E.Lozino-Lozinski the successful completion of flight, "Buran".

Engineers, technicians, pilots, specialists photographed at the "Buran".

Orbiter "Buran" on the runway of the airfield after the flight into space.

Special vehicle team post-flight servicing spacecraft about the "Buran".

The survey ship "Buran" after the flight.

Launch Complex after the test.

Footage of the work on the creation of a universal transportation system, "Energy-Buran".

The first flight tests of the universal transport system "Energy" with a reusable orbital spacecraft "Buran" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome:

launcher "Energia" and ship "Buran" on the launch pad, launch and landing facilities, systems monitoring.

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engine test bench system priletnye mining rocket, test the oxygen-hydrogen engines, delivery of structural elements blocks, engine testing on a universal stand-complex "Start";

first start of the rocket "Energia".

Orbiter "Buran" in the shop.

Tests of the "Buran" in the stands.

Lands' flying laboratory. "

Tests of full-scale analog "Buran".

Bench testing and installing the missiles and the orbiter.

Transportation rocket "Energia" is mounted with a Orbiter "Buran" t to the launch pad, installation on the launch post, docking systems.

Mission Control Center.

Prelaunch.

Start of "Energy - Buran".

Experts command and control room watching the flight of an unmanned "Buran".

"Buran" in the air.

Landing the "Buran".

Aircraft flying over the airfield maintenance.

Cab "Buran" (shooting with a camera, mounted on "Burani").

Staffed the booth of complex tests.

Orbiter "Buran" at the cosmodrome.

Multrabota - and engines in the ship.

Ground testing of motor vehicle: engine orbital maneuvering, engine management.

Work related calculations of complex test bench.

Full-size analog of the "Buran" in flight.

Transportation and installation of the "Buran" in the assembly and filling the case.

Specialists work fighting crew.

Transportation orbiter "Buran" to stand fire complex tests.

Bench tests of the "Buran".

The first launch of a space launch vehicle "Energy" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The first full-scale atmospheric flight analog "Burana" with a crew of test pilots and I. Wolf, R. Stankevicius on board.

Orbiter and aircraft maintenance in the air.

Orbiter comes with landing gear on landing.

"Buran" is moving on the runway, and wheel braking parachute.

Test pilots I. Wolf and R. Stankevicius leave the ship.

There are "swing" at the hands of pilots.

G.Lozino-Lozinski congratulates the pilots.

Tests of full-scale analog orbiter "Buran" in the Flight Research Institute named after Gromov:

the next stage of the ground preflight training ship "Buran": check the readiness of the runway, checking the engines, aircraft systems, deceleration parachute systems, control systems, verification of medical and biological control, starting engines, vibration tests, filling with nitrogen.

Orbiter on the runway.

Run "Burana" on the runway, accelerate to 100 km / h and braking.

Run "Buran" on the runway at a speed of 205 km / h, the production of braking parachutes.

Experts and test pilots I. Wolf and R. Stankevicius discuss the test results.

"Flying Laboratory", simulating the flight returning from the orbiter in the air - training management system in as close to real flight and landing.

"Flying Laboratory" and the aircraft maintenance in the air - works co-piloting technique and landing.

Descent and landing a flying laboratory.

High-speed orbital jog shuttle "Buran" on the runway.

Launcher "Energia" to set it Orbiter "Buran" at the launch site launch site "Baikonur".

The assembly of "Energy" and "Buran" in the shop.

"Energy" and "Snowstorm" are taken to the launch pad.

"Energy-Buran" at the start (night plans).

Tracking Devices at mission control.

The moment of landing, "Burana" on the screen.

Applaud gathered in the Mission control center.

Participants in the program "Energy-Buran" congratulate each other.

"Ticker" on the scoreboard: "Today, 15 November 1988, has successfully implemented the second launch vehicle" Energy "and ..."

Start of "Energy" and "Buran".