Before launching and landing self-piloting autonomous Buran space shuttle Soviet scientists had to build an analogue of the shuttle for actual flights around in atmosphere. Sort of a plane which looked exactly like space shuttle. And to make it possible they firstly made it out wood.
Now we can model such things on computers with just easy mouse movements and clicks. But before they had to build actual things out of wood to see how they would look and work.
And even insides looked like a future space ship. However it was 1:2 scale model, not actual full size. They even now still have some cables inside, however in total this object is in full neglect, thirty years after the it was built.
![image showing Abandoned Wooden Prototype of Russian Buran space shuttle [800x533]](fb3e068c-cdca-5833-ab6b-b2a0cdece276.jpg)
cleonhr on December 10th, 2017 at 20:22 UTC »
Before launching and landing self-piloting autonomous Buran space shuttle Soviet scientists had to build an analogue of the shuttle for actual flights around in atmosphere. Sort of a plane which looked exactly like space shuttle. And to make it possible they firstly made it out wood.
Now we can model such things on computers with just easy mouse movements and clicks. But before they had to build actual things out of wood to see how they would look and work.
And even insides looked like a future space ship. However it was 1:2 scale model, not actual full size. They even now still have some cables inside, however in total this object is in full neglect, thirty years after the it was built.
More Photos - https://imgur.com/a/j54dr
RevBlackRage on December 10th, 2017 at 21:20 UTC »
That's pretty fucking neat.
Nightcaste on December 10th, 2017 at 23:38 UTC »
That reentry is going to suck