Landing of the reusable orbital spacecraft Buran at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda Region. Heroes of Socialist Labor, First Deputy General Designer and General Director of the Scientific and Production Association Energia, Chief Designer of the Energia Rocket and Space System Boris Ivanovich Gubnov and Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Deputy General Designer of the Scientific and Production Association Energia, Chief Designer of the Buran Reusable Orbital Ships and Space Stations Yuri Pavlovich Semenov (from left to right) after the landing of the Soviet reusable orbital ship Buran on the runway of the Yubileyny Airfield of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch, test orbital flight and landing of Buran took place without a crew in automatic mode. Valentin Kuzmin, Albert Pushkarev/TASS