{"id":1851,"date":"2013-11-15T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2013-11-13T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:40:33","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-the-burans-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/25th-anniversary-of-the-burans-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"25th anniversary of the Buran&#8217;s flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"middle-column-img-right\" title=\"Buran's lift off\" alt=\"buran, shuttle buran program, energia, space shuttle, launcher energia, launcher, USSR, mriya, polyus, poliyus, energya, maks, bor-4, bor-5, bor-6, energia-buran, soviet rocket, space shuttle, soviet launcher, \u0411\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043d, \u042d\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0438\u044f, plans, schematic, soviet, russian shuttle, russian space shuttle, USSR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.net\/img\/depart.gif\" width=\"200px\" height=\"160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the <a title=\"Buran's flight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/bourane-buran\/bourane-versvol-1erVol.php\">Buran&#8217;s flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The start was given at 6 o&#8217;clock AM (Moscow time) under a thick cloud cover. The flight went through without specifics troubles and the shuttle landed smoothly on the runway of the Yubileyniy&#8217;s airport, specially designed for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>This flight is a first in the history of space exploration because it&#8217;s the first automatic flight of a space shuttle. Only the de-orbit command was transmitted from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the financial and political situation of the USSR at that time was disastrous, the program was expensive and priorities has changed. The Energia-Buran program is slowly paused. There will be no further launches, despite the many opportunities that allowed the shuttle. Even the launcher <a title=\"Energia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/energia\/energia-desc.php\">Energia<\/a> is abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, no manned shuttle has reiterated the achievement of being driven solely by the on-board computer.<\/p>\n<p>This program has been the swansong of the Soviet Cosmonautics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"middle-column-img-right\" title=\"Buran's landing\" alt=\"buran, shuttle buran program, energia, space shuttle, launcher energia, launcher, USSR, mriya, polyus, poliyus, energya, maks, bor-4, bor-5, bor-6, energia-buran, soviet rocket, space shuttle, soviet launcher, \u0411\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043d, \u042d\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0438\u044f, plans, schematic, soviet, russian shuttle, russian space shuttle, USSR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.net\/img\/atterrissage.gif\" width=\"200px\" height=\"160px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Buran&#8217;s flight. The start was given at 6 o&#8217;clock AM (Moscow time) under a thick cloud cover. The flight went through without specifics troubles and the shuttle landed smoothly on the runway of the Yubileyniy&#8217;s airport, specially designed for this purpose. This flight is a first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baikonour","category-bourane","category-energia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}