VKK (Vozdukhno-Kosmicheskiy Korabl', "Air-Space Ship") Buran ("Snowstorm") atop Antonov 225 Mriya (in ukrainian, "Dream"), the largest aircraft in the world. (1989).
Buran's cockpit mockup and Buran's test article, used for aerodynamic tests (soviet counterpart of the Enterprise).
Buran cutaway. In the payload bay is the 37KB Kvant-like module, called BDP (in russian "Unit for Additional Equipment". Soviets once planned to dock with Mir earlier versions of this module. Buran flew only once in 1988, unmanned.
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