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I think it's extremely unlikely that the Russians or anyone else will be able to get anything more useful than spare parts out of the completed Buran prototype(s). Would be neat if they could, though.
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Can I post the (almost) completely unrelated tidbit of info that the Russian have un-mothballed the Antonov An-225, the world's largest airplane ever built?
I say almost unrelated, as in the old days, the An-225 was used to carry the Buran just like the 747 sometimes does with the shuttles.
I just think it's a fascinating piece of technology. Check this out for more info: Antonov 225 Info page Enjoy!
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AGH! You beat me to it! I'd just read that article!
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Well, there are 462 memebers, at $12,987.00 each, a little more for shipping, handling, and taxes....
Another $20,000.00 to $30,000.00 each for getting it flight ready, advertising, and the such....
Get a few Tito's to want to be passengers.....
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If you read that article, you'll find out something fishy . . . several copies of the original Buran were built, and they're all known by the same name.
What the heck is *that* about?
On the good side, though, this probably explains the NX-01 Enterprise and NX-01 Dauntless thing. You see, in 2151 Starfleet outsourced the handling of registries to the Russians, obviously, meaning that every Starfleet vessel of the era is NX-01.
(Later, of course, Starfleet caught on and got on to the Russians, saying that they wanted *different* registries for each ship . . . hence the crackpot registries of the TOS era. Ah, yes, it's all come together now.)
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