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on 2004-Dec-18 02:07:12 Anonymous coward said

chris
Buran, the russian space shuttle on piggy back
on 2005-Jan-10 15:23:30 Anonymous coward said

mb
copy cat..copy cat...
on 2005-Jan-17 16:43:19 Anonymous coward said

zm
copy cat heh! it flew unmanned and landed itself nasa's thing can't
on 2005-Feb-19 14:39:07 Anonymous coward said

mk
never mind it's almost two times bigger than shuttle
on 2005-Mar-20 15:46:15 Anonymous coward said

25th_Stackhouse
copy cat copy cat, stupid russians cant come up with a space ship design of their own
on 2005-May-14 05:02:26 Anonymous coward said

ZM
and they didnt have to crash 2 of them to work out they're not a good idea
on 2005-Jul-03 19:22:30 Anonymous coward said

martinelli
And they keep that International Space Station manned and provisioned. Must be doing something right.
on 2005-Jul-20 07:44:52 Anonymous coward said

BG
And if you didn't know...it flew so badly, it never flew again.
on 2005-Nov-20 10:39:50 Anonymous coward said

me
The pilfering of NASA's shuttles contines . . .
on 2006-Jan-28 19:46:27 Anonymous coward said

Dave_wave
come on my back buddy !
on 2006-Feb-07 15:45:00 Anonymous coward said

copycat
ussr russia is ALWAYS COPYCAT from america space shuttle on the 747 plane,,,russia is a big ASSSSSHOLE country, low-life, too much copy from america idea,,,
on 2006-Mar-24 16:32:18 Anonymous coward said

russky
Screw you all!
on 2006-Mar-28 20:29:44 Anonymous coward said

Ian G
Afffter zer 50 jahr gappen Herman und his mates are schtill trying out zer "I vant to breed mit der flugzeug" project, zey haff just moved on to der different dictatorship
on 2006-Jul-07 02:22:39 Anonymous coward said

IPAD
Actually, NOT a copy, just close in function. Worked well, but cost out the wazoo to fly. Now a paper weight in Gorky Park.
on 2007-May-02 00:19:33 Anonymous coward said

factcheck
The American Shuttle: stupid, clumsy, expensive, and dangerous.

Buran: a flawed, late copy of that stupid, clumsy, expensive and dangerous design.
on 2007-May-02 00:23:58 Anonymous coward said

factcheck
Why copy the silly Shuttle?

Politics.

Brezhnev ordered that every prominent Western aerospace design have a Soviet counterpart. Even the dumb Western designs. Thus, Tu-144 and Buran.
on 2007-May-02 00:28:14 Anonymous coward said

factcheck
Although Buran was a bad design, the booster it flew on, Energiya, was excellent. The original Soviet N-1 Moon rocket was a failure, but the engineers eventually learned how to do it right.

Sad that Energiya is out of production. It could support very ambitious space projects.
on 2007-Sep-01 17:04:13 Anonymous coward said

runescape
i like your back its bouncy
humpy humpy humpy
on 2007-Oct-10 21:08:42 Anonymous coward said

biggs
Hank new it was the only way they could get it into the air without bits falling off it!
on 2008-Feb-11 22:01:04 Anonymous coward said

flyby
must take more fuel to transport than to launch!
on 2009-Feb-02 22:17:19 Anonymous coward said

TP
Copycat or not, there are certain limitations of design when you make a craft that can fly in space, make a re-enter and be reused. For example a specific wing angle, aerodynamic design and the size of the control surfaces.
on 2009-Feb-02 22:19:07 Anonymous coward said

TP
The princip of carrying the shuttle on top of the An-225 wasn't a copy of the shuttle-B747 either. The Buran was to be flown to a certain altitude and then fly into space on its own. The similar USA-configuration was only used to transport the Space Shuttle back to Canaveral from the landing site.
on 2009-Oct-30 00:05:00 Anonymous coward said

Jimp
Will you still love me in the morning? What's the gestation period for an AN-225.

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