If you want to see a Buran <i>without</i> hiking through the desert for 3 days, you can go to Technik Museum Speyer [1] - they also have other great air&space related exhibits (notably including an Antonov An-22 and a retired Boeing 747-200).<p>[1] <a href="https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran" rel="nofollow">https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran</a>
It is really interesting how similar the Russian space shuttle is in design to the American space shuttle. Kinda like how all of China's latest generation fighter jets look suspiciously similar to their American counterparts... <a href="https://www.defensetech.org/2015/09/29/lawmaker-chinese-j-31-j-20-mirror-american-f-35-f-22/" rel="nofollow">https://www.defensetech.org/2015/09/29/lawmaker-chinese-j-31...</a>
I'm super curious how they figured out these were here and the exact location.<p>Second, If that were me, I'd be wearing a respirator and medical gloves. God knows what sort of toxic chemicals are floating around.
Reminds me of Viceland where they toured the area around Chernobyl:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg</a><p>Except this was like a million times more hardcore, and more awesome with space shuttles.
Great footage, perfect use case for drones, their channel looks pretty interesting too.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73dVtWf9mpjiWYkXyIlm7A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73dVtWf9mpjiWYkXyIlm7A</a>
This reminded me of the film Baikonur [1], actually shot on location with a few views of the Soviet facilities there.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1826610/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1826610/</a>
I remember reading somewhere that those shuttles were in an old hangar that collapsed on top of them. Looks like that wasn't true, this was definitely shot fairly recently, drones and all.