Sujet

November 15, 1988, the buran soviet reentry spacecraft

Légende

November 15, 1988, the buran soviet reentry spacecraft (in pic) was for the first time launched from the baikonur spaceport 12 years ago, it was carried into space by an energia booster, flew around the planet twice and landed at the spaceport, the launch showed to the united states that the soviet union had a spacecraft with its main characteristics exceeding those of the u,s, shuttles, a high-ranking representative of the molniya scientific-production center has told itar-tass, molniya was the designer of the buran.

Date

01 févr. 2013

Crédit

Photo12/Sovfoto/UIG

Notre référence

UMG20B05_196

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

7,8Mo (788,0Ko) / 11,3cm x 17,3cm / 1336 x 2048 (300dpi)

Mots clés

USSR Soviet Union Soviet Space Program space shuttle

Restrictions

Utilisation éditoriale uniquement.