CEO of the Kazakhstani JSC “Baikonur Rocket-space company” Baikonur “Dauren Musa said that his company owns the second flight model of the Soviet” Burana “. The businessman assured that the company does not plan to transmit His Russia, reports TASS.
On the page in Facebook Musa clarified that the courts of Kazakhstan of the first and second instance refused to return the spacecraft to the state. “Yes, there are legal proceedings, but this is the internal affairs of an independent state,” he said, adding that the courts about the possible transfer of the Soviet shuttle in the state of Kazakhstan continue for the third year, but so far they still own his company.
“Want to pick up not in the museum, and in the laboratory for NPO” Zipper “for further work on the program” Energy – Buran “? Want to pick up, but who will give them?” – he reacted to the news that the ship wanted to return to Russia.
Earlier it was reported that the Specialists of the Scientific and Production Association “Lightning” are preparing to return the Spaceship “Buran” to Russia. Representatives of the enterprise developed by the ship visited the Baikonur cosmodrome to inspect the infrastructure and the orbital apparatus itself.
It is known that the second flight instance of the Burand orbital ship was preparing for flight in 1992, but due to insufficient funding, the flight did not take place. By the time the program is closed by a multi-sized transport and space system in 1993, the readiness of the second “Buran” exceeded 90 percent.