Buran News

The shuttle OK-GLI was transported yesterday (2008-11-06) to the Speyer museum’s hangar. This hangar will welcome in the next months an exhibition about space and space conquest. The shuttle will be assembled there (the wings and vertical stabilizer were removed), then renovated to become the main part of the exhibition.

Update of June 19:

Other pictures of the carriage added in the gallery. (Thanks to Elser-Film)

The different structures (cabin and payloadbay, wings, vertical stabilizer) of the OK-GLI shuttle will be moved to the exposition building of the Speyer museum in Wednesday, June 11, from 6 AM to 3 PM.

Pictures will be available in Thursday 12.

Here is another videos of the transport of the Buran shuttle OK-GLI in Germany (around April, 10).

The first video is the un-loading in the Rotterdam’s harbor, the second is showing pictures of the carriage on the Rhine.

Here is the official video of the carriage (done for the museum) of the shuttle OK-GLI to the Speyer museum in Germany.

Thanks to Elser-film.

Here is 2 videos of the transportation of the OK-GLI shuttle to the Speyer museum in Germany.

Here is some pictures of the Buran’s transport along the Rhine.

The Buran test shuttle OK-GLI should arrive at Rotterdam today, after a long journey from Bahrain through 2 oceans and many seas. It will be unloaded at the Gevelco terminal in the Botlek

It was carried by boat from Bahrain by the Finnish company Procargo, which already carried it 8 years ago for the Sydney exhibition during the Olympic Games of 2000.
From Rotterdam it will be transported, on Saturday by lighter on the Rhine, all the way to the Speyer museum by the Netherlands company Van Der Wees. This company is specialized into the carrying of big loads and already worked with the museum because they took care of the Concorde and the Boeing 747.
The shuttle will arrive at the Speyer museum in the second week of April.

Update:

Unloading of the shuttle.

Here is a serie of pictures of the test shuttle OK-M taken in January 2007.

OK-MT was built in Moscow in 1983 for technological developments, the transport documentation development and loading of the gas tanks, the hermetic systems of safety, the entry and the exit of the crew, the development of the military operations, the maintenance and the flight manuals.