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(http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/09/23/shuttle.shtml)

how wierd is that?
Apparently it is the OL-GLI or Buran 002 model, the one that made 25 atmospheric flights to test landing procedures.

A German Museum has bought the Shuttle and will birngt it to germany shortly

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Piccys:

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the_marq

OK...so "in the Persian Gulf" does not actually mean underwater, like "in Lake Michigan?"

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Pacifier

in the persian gulf is a bit misleading, AFAIK it was close to Bahrein

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Scorps

When did NASA start building the reuseable version?

Pacifier

First NASA Shuttle Flight (Columbia) was 1981.
Yes, the Russian version is somewhat a Copy

Because Buran's debut followed Space Shuttle Columbia's and the visual similarities between the two shuttle systems, during the Cold War many have speculated that espionage played a role in the development of the Soviet shuttle, however we now know that while externally it was an aerodynamic copy of the space shuttle, internally it was all engineered and developed domestically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran

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ARTelevision

Cool story.
Thanks!

Post-Modern Archaeology...

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StickODynomite

That's interesting....Espionage, how exciting.

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Averett

That's what I thought the article orginally meant!

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Pacifier

well, Bahrain is in the Gulf. It is an island.

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ICER

So the next obvious questions is “why were German television journalists diving in the Persian Gulf?" where they looking for it originally? Or where they looking for something else?

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Pacifier

In the german article it says that they were doing a documentation about the GrandPrix of Bahrain (Formular1)

The German Article:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/w...319316,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/w...319521,00.html

There are even some more Pics:
some of the systems still work

more Pics:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,...Zucj0x,00.html

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Destrox

Well, it was cool up untill the point where what they said in the article was only a ruse to make us want to read it.

In the Persian Gulf apparently does not mean what most of us thought.

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