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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 · 01/04/2026

just leave it like that as a bit

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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 · 17/03/2026

A look at the evolution of my beloved APAS-89 port from its 1970s origins to the triumphs of the ISS era. fiftyonepointsix.com/how-differen...

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How different are APAS-95 and APAS-89, really?

A look at the evolution of the Author’s beloved docking port, from its Buran origins to the triumphs of the International Space Station.

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maks @buran.space · 07/03/2026

The full story of the ISS' peculiar Science Power Platform, from its origins as part of the Mir-2 complex, inclusion in ISS plans and cancellation, to the surprising resurrection. fiftyonepointsix.com/science-powe...

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Science Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flop

The Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed…

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maks @buran.space · 07/03/2026

fiftyonepointsix.com

Science Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flop

The Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed…

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maks @buran.space · 06/03/2026

unfortunately i'm stuck with this one

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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

ok I’m on 2006, one more chapter

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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 · 19/02/2026

It's an anti-corrosion coating on the aluminum

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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

And that I’m not interested in

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maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026

Turned out to be a mass produced souvenir placed in a museum

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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

In a way quite infuriating that they’ve been sitting on these for 40 years. The photos in the top left were officially published in 2023 as crappy 800 pixel wide scans in black and white

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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

If I got a penny for every time someone brought up bald and bankrupt to me I’d have at least 39 pennies

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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 · 31/01/2026

The number song samples the 1972 scifi film Silent Running according to whosampled. But Valley of the Shadows uses the STS-51C countdown, yet another shuttle win

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