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maks @buran.space · 17/04/2026

Here's a color version of the Gamma poster, from a scan of Zemlya i Vselennaya

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maks @buran.space · 14/04/2026

got carried away with the power cables 🙆‍♀️

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maks @buran.space · 25/03/2026

My article on the reusable Zarya capsule now on TSR. thespacereview.com/article/5184/1

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maks @buran.space · 06/03/2026

it also keeps ignoring the window size preferences and launching documents in 0 by 0 pixel windows

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maks @buran.space · 06/03/2026

acrobat froze when i clicked to disable ai features lmao

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maks @buran.space · 05/03/2026

cheeky Science Power Platform pressure vessel in the background my article on the power stick should finally land in a couple of days, it's going to be pretty chonky, but well illustrated

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maks @buran.space · 04/03/2026

RD-170 chambers waiting for assembly

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maks @buran.space · 02/03/2026

Recolored version of the Russ Arasmith illustration of the final Space Shuttle Phase B design by the NAR-led team; the Convair B9U booster and NAR-161-B orbiter. b&w scan by @macsjr.bsky.social, color via nasa.gov

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maks @buran.space · 16/02/2026

another previously unreleased photo of 1K "Buran" in the short-lived Baikal livery casually dropped by Vadim Lukashevich as part of a meme

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maks @buran.space · 16/02/2026

how your email finds me

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

I know an RD-0120 when I see one!

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

Some shots from the 2004 online auction where the third Buran orbiter was for offered for sale on allegro (iykyk)

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

by mid-1976 (or 1978) that final configuration (305-2 - right)) was approved, succeeding OK-92 (center), so if the model is of OS-120 (left), the configuration is out of date by 3 years. it could also just be based on the Space Shuttle shape, which by that time already had the short OMS pods

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

and again the model in the NPO Molniya museum, showing a similar livery to the mid-80s illustrations of the almost final orbiter design

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

ok sorry for the chaos, there might be something to this model after all. it does seem to be the same model as in this photo of Pilyugin and Lozino-Lozinskiy dated 1978

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

buran-related transportation finds

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maks @buran.space · 12/02/2026

what a bizarre paint scheme on the Energia

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maks @buran.space · 10/02/2026

John Frassanito illustration of the Energia with a NASA payload

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maks @buran.space · 08/02/2026

tbt when the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant carrying the second Buran orbiter skidded off the runway and got stuck in the snow at Zhukovsky

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maks @buran.space · 07/02/2026

Another one. this time just a before and after the souvenirs were taken

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maks @buran.space · 05/02/2026

cursed buran ferry concept

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maks @buran.space · 04/02/2026

i understand the logic but it still feels wrong

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maks @buran.space · 04/02/2026

Rockwell shuttle concept with a Grumman livery for some reason?

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maks @buran.space · 04/02/2026

my recreation of the Danne and Blackburn-era NASA video intro brutally compressed into gif form

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maks @buran.space · 12/01/2026

Here's that mockup being built at NPO Molniya and lifted by a helicopter.

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maks @buran.space · 12/01/2026

Messing around on Google Earth trying to locate bits of Buran and Energia hardware, and suddenly the MAKS propellant tank mockup appeared before my eyes, right next to a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant and the PKU-50 mate-demate device at Zhukovsky airfield. Image from 2002.

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maks @buran.space · 09/01/2026

1/3 scale wooden model of the Buran orbiter at Zhukovsky in the 90s

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maks @buran.space · 09/01/2026

a Buran forward fuselage test article outside NPO Molniya's Tushino factory gradually losing tiles to ebaycitis over time

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maks @buran.space · 08/01/2026

And a couple more. Images: Number Station, Mike Acs, Ed Dempsey, Drew Granston, Boeing

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maks @buran.space · 08/01/2026

Here's some more photos.

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maks @buran.space · 08/01/2026

Took me way too long to spot this, but Rockwell's full-scale mockup of the Shuttle orbiter was built before the design was finalised, so it features the Vehicle 4 configuration's longer OMS pods that overlap the payload bay instead of the blunt pods on the final Vehicle 6.