The head of Roscosmos suggested that there will be people in the city who will save a sample of the ship and its layout for posterity
MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that the Buran spacecraft is in a "terrible state" and called on the owner Dauren Musa to give his flight sample and layout to the city of Baikonur.
"This is how you saved the Burans? Do you call yourself their "responsible owner"? Look at it: the terrible state of these cars is on your conscience. Before it's too late, give these cars to the city of Baikonur, a Kazakh city. Let the residents and guests of Baikonur admire this great creation of Soviet engineering thought, " Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.
The head of Roscosmos suggested that there will be people in the city who will save the flight sample of the spacecraft and its layout for posterity. "But if you keep the Burans, you will completely ruin them," Rogozin is convinced.
In early September, NPO Molniya (the developer of Buran) reported that specialists had inspected a flight sample of a spacecraft at Baikonur. At the same time, the press service clarified that following the results of the meeting, it was decided that the disassembly, transportation and subsequent assembly of the ship and the layout should be carried out under the author's supervision of NPO Molniya as an enterprise. Later, the press service of the NGO told TASS that the company has no plans to return the spacecraft to Russia.
In turn, the general director of the Kazakhstan JSC "Rocket and Space Company "Baikonur" Dauren Musa said that his company owns the second flight model of the Soviet space shuttle "Buran", it is not planned to transfer it to the Russian side. In February 2021, the specialized interdistrict economic court of the city of Almaty refused to satisfy the claim for the liquidation of the Baikonur Rocket and Space Company JSC and the return to state ownership of its property, including the second flight model of the Soviet space shuttle Buran.
Buran is a Soviet reusable spacecraft. On November 15, 1988, it was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome (now on the territory of Kazakhstan) using an Energia launch vehicle, made two orbits around the Earth and landed on the territory of the cosmodrome. The flight took place without a crew, its duration was 205 minutes. The sample that was in space was destroyed due to the collapse of the roof of the assembly and test building at Baikonur in 2002. The preserved flight sample of the Buran ,which has never been in orbit due to the fact that the program was curtailed, and the mock-up of the rocket plane are now at Baikonur.