Comments on: Baikonur Cosmodrome http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Harry Barracuda http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-51289 Harry Barracuda Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:57:01 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-51289 One of the other Buran's is sadly in pieces in a storage yard in Bahrain, since a legal dispute between whoever owns it and someone who was trying to take it on a world tour. You can clearly see the fuselage and wings at: http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&q=moscow&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&hl=en&ll=26.198333,50.602778&spn=0.001422,0.003455&z=18&hl=en Bloody shame if you ask me. They even found some Indian labourers living in the cockpit having removed a few pieces! One of the other Buran’s is sadly in pieces in a storage yard in Bahrain, since a legal dispute between whoever owns it and someone who was trying to take it on a world tour.
You can clearly see the fuselage and wings at: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Bloody shame if you ask me.
They even found some Indian labourers living in the cockpit having removed a few pieces!

]]> By: James http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44845 James Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:05:00 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-44845 I didn't say it did! :D 'Ptichka' means 'little bird'. I didn’t say it did! :D

‘Ptichka’ means ‘little bird’.

]]> By: Frank Taylor http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44832 Frank Taylor Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:40:12 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-44832 By the way, "Buran" in russian means "snowstorm" not "little bird". By the way, “Buran” in russian means “snowstorm” not “little bird”.

]]> By: Infinity http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44690 Infinity Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:14:16 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-44690 Looks like the big building with no roof(currently) was the cosmodrome and the Missing Roof is the part that crushed the Buran http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml Looks like the big building with no roof(currently) was the cosmodrome and the Missing Roof is the part that crushed the Buran

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml

]]> By: Mark http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44686 Mark Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:40:38 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-44686 This site has pictures of the building where Buran was destroyed: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml Looks like the same one. This site has pictures of the building where Buran was destroyed:

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml

Looks like the same one.

]]> By: Mizo http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44655 Mizo Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:49:59 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/27/baikonur-cosmodrome/#comment-44655 Wow. This is operational? Most of it looks demolished and abandoned. I guess looks can be deceiving. There is a whole lot of info on russianspaceweb.com, including a map. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur.html Wow. This is operational? Most of it looks demolished and abandoned. I guess looks can be deceiving.

There is a whole lot of info on russianspaceweb.com, including a map.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur.html

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