Preparations for the landing of the Buran orbital ship at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda region. Fire crews in special protective suits on the runway of the Yubileyny airfield of the Baikonur cosmodrome during the preparation of the cosmodrome's ground services for the landing of the Soviet reusable orbital spacecraft Buran. The launch, test orbital flight and landing of Buran took place without a crew in automatic mode. Albert Pushkarev/TASS