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August 16, 2011 at 1:01 am
this is CCCP?
August 16, 2011 at 1:33 am
Yup. Did fully automatic unmanned takeoff and landing decades before the US, was tested once and then abandoned in a hangar that collapsed and destroyed it.
August 16, 2011 at 3:10 am
The NASA shuttle Enterprise was used for testing and flew unmanned in Earth’s atmosphere in 1977…over a decade before the Buran flew its only flight in 1988. The first manned shuttle flight of the Columbia was in 1981…almost a decade before the Buran.
August 16, 2011 at 1:43 pm
“Buran remained the only space shuttle to ever perform an unmanned flight in fully automatic mode until 22 April 2010 when the US Air Force launched its Boeing X-37 spaceplane.”
So no. Enterprise may have flown unmanned – but unlike the Buran, it wasn’t automatic.
August 16, 2011 at 8:36 am
It’s in some-German-museum-name-I-don’t-remember-now.
Hope to see it this autumn.