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Understanding 9/11tv Buran 1TV November 16, 2023 12:00am-1:01am MSK
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these shots were taken on november 15 , 1988, the buran spacecraft successfully returns to earth from its first flight, all soviet newspapers proudly wrote about this event, the most successful space project, buran is our answer to the american shuttle. buran's second flight will take place this spring. buran was supposed to go on its second flight not in automatic mode, but with astronauts on board. igor volk, former commander of the buranovsky test squad, now he is the only one alive from the first squad. more than 500 people submitted applications, and out of
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500, many were written off, that’s all. in 1978, the wolf was tasked with selecting eight test pilots for a new secret job. ideal health and excellent training were required, exactly the same as those of the astronauts. well, since his last name is wolf, the jokers called his squad. nine people in the wolf pack. members of the wolf pack were promised all the socialist benefits, service apartments, large salaries, food packages and, most importantly, a flight into space. the pilots sought to join the elite squad. then no one could have imagined that the choice of the wolf would become fatal for them. immediately our level, so to speak.
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even purely social, yes, it has become much better than that of test pilots, yes, that’s why we already have uniforms and sports equipment, and all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, you know, and food, everything else, here are the first legendary eight pilots of the russian shuttle: igor volk, oleg kononenko, anatoly levchenko. rimontos stankevicius, alexander shukin, nikolai sadovnikov, victor boukreev and alexander lysenko. igor volk, the only one, who survived from this detachment. under mysterious circumstances, almost all the test cosmonauts who were supposed to fly into space on buran died. they said that the pilots were removed by secret order of the kgb, that foreign intelligence services were involved in the deaths, and even... that there is a curse
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of the soviet shuttle. two pilots died immediately. 3 days after this photograph was taken, viktor boukreev died. he was making a routine training flight. during takeoff , the plane's front landing gear broke. car caught fire. boukreev received severe burns, the pilot was still alive and pulled out of the burning plane. viktor bukreev died on the way to the hospital. next was alexander lyssenko. together with his partner, he tested a new flight instrument on a fighter. the device failed and the plane crashed to the ground. the pilot, who had nothing to do with buran, survived, was cured and continued to fly. but alexander lysenko, who planned to prepare for flights on buran, died. well, what should we do? like this, this is a separate topic, so
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let’s not touch on it, then no one attached any importance to these deaths, they decided that these were random coincidences, pilots often die while testing new equipment, in the language of the military this is called inevitable losses. the soviet academy of sciences had long ago calculated the potential danger of the american shuttle; academy president mstislav keldysh reported at a secret meeting of the commission of the presidim of the council of ministers. the shuttle can pass over leningrad or moscow, drop a nuclear charge, destroying these cities. protect yourself from this hitting is impossible. the soviet air defense system is not designed for bombs from space. the same was confirmed by soviet intelligence.
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because there was a fact of the nerka shuttle over the kremlin, that is, over moscow it dropped to 70 km, using the ricochet method it bounced off into space, this meant that it was possible to strike, despite the air defense and missile defense of moscow, it was possible to strike nuclear weapons directly from space in the kremlin. in addition, soviet scientists were confident that the shuttle could steal our space secrets; theoretically , the american ship was able to fly up to soviet military satellites, grab them with a manipulator, load your huge cargo bay and bring them to the ground. no space vehicle at present can release such cargo from orbit. the union can lower 50 kg there, 100 there, but it could lower 20 tons. the ussr must have an adequate response to the space threat,
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the military decided so. the intelligence officers were tasked with obtaining blueprints for the shuttle, and the engineer was tasked with developing the soviet shuttle. dmitry ustinov, who oversees the defense program of the ussr, is preparing a decree to make exactly the same ship, like the americans, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, says ustinov. the americans were very detailed, they talked about the shuttle, they gave diagrams there, so constructive, they talked about thermal protection, but no technology. they are not bagel. the soviet shuttle was built by the entire country, although the country did not know this. individual parts of the ship were designed in all major design bureaus, but all research and development were strictly classified. many engineers had no idea that
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they were working on the soviet shuttle. for a special research institute was created to coordinate the project. in the documents the secret project will be called. buran, the ship itself will also receive the same name. the fact that the soviet shuttle exists will become known only during perestroika. before launching buran into space, the flight is practiced in detail on the ground; the wolf pack pilots fly every day in airplanes whose cockpits have been converted to fit the buran’s cabin. the tests are just beginning, and the test squad unexpectedly loses another pilot, oleg. after sixty-six he worked on helicopters at the flight research institute and when the vertical theme was born, that’s where he took part in the tests at that time of the yak-36 aircraft from the okb, which
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was carried out at the yakovlevo okb, tests are taking place in the asuriya zalivenenko and his co-pilot mikhail hexbach are practicing take-off from the deck aircraft carrier minsk, after another maneuver, the plane falls from the deck into the sea, dexbach ejected, it is generally accepted that he was the first to pull the ejection handles, it turned out that he landed on the deck of the ship, and my father stayed, well, he landed in the water, well , i wouldn’t say that dexpukh landed softly, he had a key in front, in my opinion, that is , after all, the deck is metal, but my father, on the contrary, floundered for a long time in water, after that he caught a cold and lost weight, so to speak, after the accident, kanonenko decided to leave
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the wolf pack altogether, as if he had a presentiment of something, but his comrades dissuaded him: buran, your chance to fly into space, and kononenko remained in the detachment, after six months he again... they called to test the plane with vertical takeoff for just a week. the tests took place in the south china sea, the single-seat yak was tested in tropical conditions. on the morning of september 8, 1980 , kononenko's engine failed. the plane fell from the deck into the sea, just like the last time, with the only difference that kononenko did not have time to eject. when it hit the water, apparently the father lost consciousness and he was unable to transport himself, that is, time was lost, then the plane sank. oleg kononenko died, the depth at the crash site
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was more than 100 m. yes, he was lifted through, probably for two months, this happened, that is, first the ship’s commander threw out a buoy, the so-called plane crash, after which a special team of ships was assembled to search for the plane and the remains of hotz. he was buried in the city of zhukovsky at the bykovsky cemetery, there were a lot of funeral pilots there, there was no flight yet, and the buran team had already lost half of the testers, with the death of oleg kononenko, there were four candidates for buran pilots left, the deaths seemed in no way related to buran , but for some reason they died namely test pilots from the wolf pack. buran is a special device, while it is in orbit, it is a spaceship, but as
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soon as buran enters the atmosphere, it will become an airplane, so preparing for flights on it is more difficult than on a regular soyuz, you must not only be an astronaut ready to work in zero gravity, you must to be a pilot, in order to land buran at the airfield, test pilots traveled from zhukovsky star city, studied space disciplines, and then returned to the flight institute and immediately put us in the training center for general space training, we had to go through all this, it practically took almost 2 years, that’s why we studied like karl’s dads and at the same time also flew, if classes were in the morning we came in the evening, or if we had to fly in the morning, we knocked out so that that is, we are constantly, which means it doesn’t matter, we need new
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pilots to replace the dead pilots, but after the death of oleg kononenko, rumors began to spread among the testers about the curse of buran, many pilots refused to join the detachment, stop talking, no mysticism here no, says the wolf at a meeting at the flight institute, he manages to persuade new testers to join the squad, the first time the new team got together was at a wake, six months have passed since the death of oleg kononenko. according to the old flying tradition , instruments were placed on the edge of the table for all the deceased members of the squad. newcomer vladimir even wrote poetry about it. this is exactly the recruitment of this school
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pilot of the test group here, volodya turoves, who, by the way, also wanted to get into the detachment when we were sitting at the wake, here volodya took a napkin, literally, right there, that means, so i wrote a poem in memory, and it ended with the words, who’s next? test squad, and on february 8 he died while testing the mi-8 helicopter, only 10 days passed after those fateful commemorations. you see, it was also fate, it was january 28, this crew died, and it crashed on february 8, this was already the fourth death in the detachment.
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are dying one after another. soviet officials did not believe in mysticism; first of all , a version was developed that the death of the testers was arranged by agents of enemy intelligence services. but the investigation found that all the pilots died accidentally. foreign intelligence has nothing to do with it. the human factor is solely to blame. a traveler coming to venice is more likely to see his expectations than the city as it is. in the eighties of the century, the carnival suddenly revived on its own. a silent or screaming crowd in the square is always ready to turn the world upside down; if the crowd doesn’t want anything, a carnival is impossible. the phenomenon of a mask is difficult to understand; using a mask is a desire to change, hide, become
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someone else. sometimes it occurs to people it’s a crazy thought that there is no longer a taboo, the energy itself and some kind of action are not observed here, not even close, and it seems to me that the russians could breathe a new spirit here. confused masks wander through venetian squares and streets, but this is nothing more than the shadow of a carnival. why wear a mask if you can't give up on yourself? matador, venice, winter water, friday to friday. gene sheaf, a product of the stellar group, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, leaving, serial killers are divided into four
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different types, according to their motivations, one way or another they kill because of love. you are probably a writer , you sent this request to him, they don’t have such an employee, and you know igor well, you don’t drink coffee, girls, no, you’re scaring me, i love you, me, it hurts, come here, more , which, as the midok likes,
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the territory, soon, on the first. maybe they should hang their tail on him? let's wait, his head is full of other things right now. sklif is a legend since the time of count sheremetyev. all the modern successes of the institute are based on the history that it had, an experiment on humans and people at risk. the chief neurosurgeon of the russian federation compared the slifosov institute. with an aircraft carrier, that is, this is a machine that is constantly in operation, which allows you to implement everything that has been done according to science directly into clinical practice. we have the most experience in the world in the treatment of multiple multi-level grass, that is, when more than one postan is broken , and there are several of them, anesthetologists, the magatovs, the world champion in bodybuilding, the germans turned him over,
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twisted him and said, take him to russia, i’ve been to a lot of places in which medical clinics institutions, this is it... the humanity that specialists have, i have never met it anywhere, the doctors pulled me out of the other world, i thank them every time, they succeeded, i succeeded, we all succeeded. sklifosovsky institute century of mercy, premiere, on sunday on the first. buran is often called an analogue or repetition of the shuttle, they are indeed similar, but only externally, with their contours, in fact, they are just large airplanes, and the laws of aerodynamics apply the same in florida, on baikanur, we, well
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did it after the shuttle, so let’s say, we weren’t here, we weren’t ahead of anything, we were behind , the requirements that the customer set... were to bring out the same cargo, well, the same size, there’s mass, dimensions, like the shuttle, but these are some kind of weights, 18 m long, and 4.5 m in diameter, this is the kind of load we had to take out in a snowstorm, and then everything is solved simply, if you make a shell with this diameter with... you attach wings to this load, then it will be, well , one way or another it looks like the shuttle, buran and the shuttle, they are in this sense, well, they’re like all planes similar. the surface of the russian american shuttle is also the same, it’s something like a tiled wall in a bathroom, only it’s not tiles that are glued to the space shuttle, but
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heat-protective silicate tiles, there were about 3000 of them on buran, without them the ship would simply have burned down... the heat protection is done for so that when a ship descends in the atmosphere, from a height of approximately 100-90 km, due to the high speed, strong heating occurs there, as even plasma is formed, ordinary materials immediately burn, the skin of ordinary spaceships is disposable, it is thick a layer of special material that gradually burns out in the atmosphere, itself descending... but it cannot be used a second time. buran was a reusable spacecraft, it was designed for at least 20 flights, so its surface had to. remain safe and sound. the basis for such material is ultra-pure quartz, that is, 99.99%
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purity, pure quartz. there is very little such material in nature. we started working with rock crystal, since it is a very pure material, and then in the middle urals they found deposits of especially pure quartz sand, from which they were then smelted into blanks, and then very thin fibers were obtained from these blanks using a special method, which were then used to make thermal protection. when entering the atmosphere, the shuttle heats up so much that it begins to glow. colors vary from light pink to plasma white. the leading edge of the wing and the nose section heat up to 1,650°. but the astronauts are only guessing about this.
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thus, the person held the hot tile between his fingers. buran and the shuttle, the difference is in the control principle: the shuttle can only be landed manually. in the last 4 minutes of the flight , the astronauts have to take control . the risk of an accident is quite high; a person may become ill if overloaded. a unique automatic landing system was designed on buran. he could make an unmanned flight, take off himself, stay in space for the allotted time and land at the airfield himself. as a result, he landed better than the plane, than... the pilot would have landed him, despite the fact that there was a very strong wind that day, you are usually prohibited from even flying
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it was about 25 m per second, looking at such a wind, it landed very accurately, and didn’t roll, stopped, turned off the systems and , so to speak, finished the work, but the developers didn’t want to rely completely on the technology, so it appeared... these are testers . to test real landing conditions and train crews, a flight analogue of buran was built, an externally exact copy of the space shuttle, only four engines were installed in the tail so that it could take off on its own. testers learn to land buran using this machine. the military wants to launch buran, as many as possible , the testers are dying one after another, it takes too much time to prepare new ones, so the tests are transferred to the baikon. but here the pilots
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are plagued by strange interference when landing; there was none at zhukovsky; it turned out that the interference was caused by tumbleweed bushes. the equipment was simply very sensitive, so now before each flight of the wolf pack, the soldiers walked along the steppe and collected grass balls. this airfield was built at baikonur specifically for buran. the coating is perfectly smooth, like a mirror. the chief designer of buran, gleb lazin lazinsky, personally took over the strip. he put a glass of water on the hood of his volga. the car accelerated to 100 km/h. in the place where the water spilled, the concrete slabs were polished with diamond cutters. this was a necessary measure. buran's landing speed is higher than that of an airplane. on a regular runway, where there are joints between concrete slabs, the shuttle could overturn and break into pieces.
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the test is nearing its finale, it has been decided to send members of the wolf pack into space on conventional soyuz spacecraft, and after landing, conduct experiment, put them in the pilot's seat and see if they can fly the plane. in zero gravity. stop working, so in conditions of gravity it is difficult for the body to rebuild itself back. this experiment simulated buran's flight into orbit and landing in manual mode. the first to go into space was, as always, the commander, igor volk. the task was, therefore, to confirm that the pilot , after a space flight, does the same things as we did before the flight. means immediately after space flight that they are not violated there will be some skills, so to speak, algorithms , which means, yes, in july 1984
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, this is the testing institute where i used to work and there they were waiting for the wolf, after landing on the spacecraft, to be brought to us by plane. after 12 days of flight , the soyuz t-12 crew returned to earth, but there was a hitch when the cosmonauts left the descent vehicle. for some reason they couldn’t get me out of the ship, for some reason they couldn’t unscrew this return compartment for a long time, that’s why the delay already started with this, which means i had to climb out there myself. rescuers carefully in their arms
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they took me out of the ship, as it should be according to the instructions: after the flight it is difficult not only to walk, but just to stand on your feet. no one helps the wolf, he gets out of the hatch on his own, this is also a test condition, with a staggering gait , the wolf approaches the helicopter, his legs and arms do not obey, he literally crawls into the cabin, but then it turns out that he will have to fly barefoot. the wolf did not receive his flight gear. i say , i won’t board a plane without pants , do whatever you want, let’s look, well , they found the pants, but no shoes, so it had to be hard and to fly, this is on 154 there, well, first by helicopter, you have to fly even to 154 , and then they already found boots there, first igor controls the mi-8 helicopter, he sits at
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the helm in only socks, then transfers to the tu-154, its cabin was converted into a buran cabin. the wolf flies on the carcass to akhtubensk across the whole country, but the tests are not over yet. he is dressed in a high-altitude suit and put into a mig-25 supersonic fighter. in an instant he returns to baikanur, which is several thousand kilometers more. the wolf feels there is a difference from his usual airplane flights, but this is not a creature. well, the muscles are a little different after all, 12 days of weightlessness somehow, but in any case it was not noticeable to me, the wolf completed the flight, landed normally and confirmed that the qualities of a pilot are not lost, it was such a control test work.
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you can’t love your homeland and not know the culture, geography, history , traditional shoes of the russian peasants from the game, the champion in the rubber band, the spade, a wonderful game, this is a marble canyon, she walked this region with a backpack, irina’s songs, which is a powerful russian folk premiere, i love my country, on saturday on the first. montechoca cognac, a product of the stelar group, dear, young.
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well, since we are having a wedding in a noble estate, let’s make the dress something special, elegant, but with folk motifs, don’t be scared, we just want to integrate this detail, it ’s called cannons from a traditional tula costume into your image, look how we the girls made a young woman, we will have long bread with a braided braid, which symbolizes the intertwining of the groom’s family and family brides, we need a tula gingerbread, and to make this tula gingerbread, we need a gingerbread board, yeah, gingerbread is joy, hands down, then up, little girls, back, girls, sweetness, and this, and this is for joy, ours premiere, we are playing a wedding, on sunday on the first.
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in december 1987, levchenko flew into space on the next soyuz spacecraft. commander. vladimir tetov and engineer musa manarov were supposed to work in space for a year at the mir station. levchenko was returning from space together with the crew of the mir station, yuri romanenko and alexander alexandrov. the landing turned out to be very difficult. in the landing area there was a strong wind and a severe snowstorm. romanenko also joked, well, the buran pilot should land in buran. snowstorm in the kazakh steppe. it ended badly for the soyuz spacecraft, the descent module hit the ground hard, and all the cosmonauts received bruises. on the ground, romanenko and aleksandrov immediately fall into the hands of doctors, they are placed on stretchers and taken to the nearest military
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hospital. anatoly levchenko needs to complete the experiment to the end. right in the steppe, right away after landing, doctors conduct an operational medical examination. levchenko is examined and his blood pressure and pulse are measured. the condition is unstable, we recommend stopping the experiment, but anatoly levchenko insists on continuing the tests, i will be able to land the plane. half an hour after landing, he takes the helm of a tu-154, and then a mig-25 fighter. the tests are going well. levchenko copes with the controls and lands the planes on air. despite severe bruises and a week in zero gravity, for this flight anatoly levchenko receives from the kremlin secretary general mikhail gorbachev star of the hero of the soviet union. either he was like a father
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or something, that means they were caretakers, he was always at the airfield, always working, and he loved his profession very much, he is a very talented person, very smart. nobody knows what space is. began to suffer from severe headaches, it was the last thing the pilot had to go to the doctors, they would definitely write him off, then he would have to forget about space, but the pain in his head was getting worse day by day, it happened literally, which means, well, as a rule, we are always on these, in the city there on may 1st, november, it always means there are demonstrations there, we always participated, so it was just enough for him when he was carrying the flag there, more gently. yes , yes, suddenly he was shot in the head so that it was instantaneous. levchenko held out with the last of his strength until the end of the demonstration, he drove home only then asked his wife to call
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an ambulance, there were only six months left before buran’s flight. anatoly levchenko really hoped that he would have time to recover. either a very courageous, very patient person, these former sensations that arose in him. he i endured them, even after the may holidays the pain became unbearable, i just had to go to the hospital, well, you can’t blame anyone here , it’s a very insidious disease, very energetic and manifests itself in different ways, of course, for every disease there are some initiating moments in life, i don’t think it was related to his profession in space, levchenko was admitted to the hospital, doctors discovered he had a brain tumor, it is still unclear how this disease could have been missed? levchenko underwent a medical examination several times a year. in in conclusion, doctors always wrote that he was healthy and fit to fly. a computed tomography scan showed nothing.
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and when i talked to the chief physician, it means, yes, he says , igor, well, i can’t go into the brain if i don’t know where to go, until it means that in the sixth clinic they haven’t done some kind of single installation there. magnetic nuclear resonance, then they only determined where, well, maybe it’s too late, on august 6, 1988, six months after the flight into space, anatoly levchenko died of a brain tumor. cosmonaut titov and monarov, with whom he flew in an alliance, at that time they were still in orbit, going out... in contact with the ground, they always asked to say hello to anatoly levchenko, only in december, when they had already returned to earth, were they informed that their my friend has been dead for six months now.
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doctors could not say why the disease developed so quickly. some believed that it was caused by space flight. blamed on the injuries that levchenko received after landing. but the test pilots were sure that the flight had nothing to do with it. astronauts experience during training there are much greater overloads. and no one dies from this, some special research may be carried out here, but i don’t think that space flight, well, because if it were so, then it should not have been an isolated case. there was even a rumor among the pilots that anatoly was a victim of an experiment conducted in space; they said that in orbit he experienced effects on the body. some new drugs that
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turned out to be fatal in zero gravity conditions, but no one officially confirms this version. wake celebrated in the same officers' club where vladimir turovets was recently remembered. nobody wrote poetry anymore. there are five empty plates and glasses at the table. five testers of the buranovsky detachment died, but there is still no flight into space. unwittingly, the members of the wolf pack look at each other in a new way. who's next? the test pilots avoid the damned squad. even skeptics are beginning to doubt that these deaths are just coincidences. at the wake , the wolf, addressing the remaining members of the squad, utters the fatal phrase: “i didn’t know that i call you to death." guys, forgive me. when
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levchenko died, there was nothing yet. he died literally a month later, in my opinion, very much, even less, a month after levchenko’s death, he flew on a sports plane, on an aviation holiday , fell into a tailspin in a light aerobatic aircraft, broke loose and did not have time to get out . alexander shukin felt the death of anatoly levchenko very keenly. they were best friends, graduated from the same flight school, served in the same military unit. they always flew together. shukin was levchenko's co-pilot. they were supposed to fly into space together on buran. it seems to me that he was certainly worried. for some reason he didn’t fly into space, i don’t know, i wanted, for sure, like
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everyone else there, sasha chukin was the most talented of us, obviously, he was everyone ’s favorite, handsome, stately, humorous, with a very subtle feeling, a music lover, he loved music , a very, very subtle person, very emotional, sometimes it even distracted him somewhere, maybe, but nevertheless, he was a very talented person. alexander shchyukin himself organized levchenko’s funeral. at the cemetery, he somehow casually mentioned that he would like to lie not far from his friend. then no one paid attention to these words. the comrades understood that shukin was having the hardest time of all. immediately after the wake, alexandrin left for training. shukin was going to perform at an air festival in honor of aviation day. he was preparing to show aerobatics,
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on the eighteenth of august there was another training session, chyukin took off and began performing maneuvers, but an unforeseen situation arose, i didn’t rummage through the documents, but as far as i was told, it was an inverted corkscrew, then it seemed to turn into a straight stopper , well, crazy angular rotations, that is, of course for it to be necessary, you need to prepare for such flights carefully for a long time, then there was a direct corkscrew lack of withdrawal, at the withdrawal and lack of altitude, that is, it seems like the plane was already leaving, that’s all i know , many of his comrades saw the death of shchukin , almost all the participants in the air show gathered during the training day, they said that shchukin was needed to
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take the plane out of the corkscrew was not enough 100 meters, no one could explain why such an experienced pilot suddenly lost control, he didn’t get out of the corkscrew, he was spinning, he was upside down in a corkscrew, there are normal corkscrews, when you spin like that, like a leaf, but there is an inverted one back, when it spins like that, it’s when the rudders are obscured, very... use the rudders to get it out, because the torque moment is so much greater, like on ice, so it’s spinning, you can’t stop it, alexandrin died just 12 days after the death of his ... commander, anatoly levchenko, i had a feeling, i knew that i would not see him again, and even such an event seemed to happen, at exactly 12:00 at night, from the sixth to the seventh, we had a photograph of sasha and tolya, so famous when they are in blue suits, like after survival, there after certain
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training for survival , they looked like such heroes there, this is just an amazing photo, she is cheerful in our corridor at exactly 12 o’clock, the glass exploded to shattering in this in this photo . broken frame like a cracked mirror is considered a bad omen, but the pilots of the wolf pack do not believe in omens, probably in vain, a day after the glass cracked in the photograph, another tester from the buranovsky detachment died. behind the city of dzhukovsk there is a magnificent cemetery, of course, the saddest place in the city, and we - in the years when intense trials were going on, we lost 10-12 crews a year, and the whole city always buried them and the tradition is that the student of the teacher is seen off by the student, that's when the remispogs, he was taken out of the house of culture in the city of zhukovsky, this is a magnificent old stalinist
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building, magnificent, so i made a passage over it on the 27th, just recently, when sashish died. in the italian province of triviza, another air show was planned; one of the test pilots of the buranovsky detachment was supposed to perform there; it was decided that sergei tresvyatsky would go to italy, but at the very last moment, rimontos stankevicius persuaded him to abandon the business trip. i won’t see him again, i saw him 5 days before his death, they were flying to italy at three volts for
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a demonstration flight on a su-27 plane, so and... then we saw him for the last time, but it was all a joke, that i was a boy of 12 years old, they joked and he flew away, and how they joked, and there was a joke that before that i had such a gun, and i asked him to bring me cartridges for this gun, bring the gun to the children’s room, he said yes, i’ll bring you a lot of cartridges, and then we’ll sit all evening counting them. his wife tried to persuade rimantos to abandon this trip; a week before, she had a dream in which a plane crashed. but rimantas did not believe in omens, not in prophetic dreams, you’re just tired, i ’ll be back in a week, you’ll see, he said. mom, before this particular
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incident, had some kind of premonition, because after mom died, we received a note that she wrote. father left it on her mother’s table, well, he was flying away, when he flew away, the note contained one sentence , well, how is it that it makes no difference whether you fly on one plane or another, well, and a few other words, but we don’t understand, at an air show in italy, rimontos stankevicius performed an aerobatic maneuver in front of thousands spectators, his plane went into a tailspin and crashed to the ground, rimantos, the first and only lithuanian cosmonaut, died. yes, they buried there, they put a monument here next to the guys, in the cemetery, if you go, you will see, all the guys are buried nearby, well, how do you remember the klimas here, where the lecturers are buried, and he was buried by that one.
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the first flight of buran was scheduled for october 25, 1988; it was decided to send the ship without people in automatic mode. everything is ready for flight, everything was fine, 42 seconds from oh, reset all systems and then
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they started to figure out what was wrong, it turned out that the aiming block did not, did not move away from the carriers, it should be retracted, but it, well, something happened to the mechanism and it did not stack, the failure was investigated by a special commission, they checked all the ship's systems, but no problems were found. the next launch was scheduled for november 15, 1988, on this day a hurricane wind blew over baikanur. the weather was rubbish, snow, wind, wind gusts up to 120 m per second. the storm here is designed for a maximum of 15. so we sat and thought, let us in, not let us in. and
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all the experts came there, of course, they let it all go, it took off, well, everyone was waiting for it to fly, like what , you understand, this is such an unknown, the empty snowstorm landed perfectly, it landed only 15 m further than the designers had planned , for a huge five-kilometer. it was a mere trifle, then no one thought that the first flight would remain the only one. it seemed that, despite all the curses, the wolf would soon fly into space on her bird. igor volk insisted, this is buran’s second flight must have a stage. the flight was scheduled for 1991. but there was no money for it anymore. in may 1993, the director of the russian.
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the main engines for general orbital maneuvering and those engines that control the lateral longitudinal component. many people think that this is the same device that flew into space. in fact, this is not... buran, just a mock-up, tests were carried out on it, the strength of the ship’s hull was checked. in 1993, it was made into an attraction for children, when it became clear that buran would not fly anywhere else, this the driftwood could no longer fly into the spit, because it was already late, the decision had already been made. another snowstorm, the same one on which the wolfpack trained, was sold to australia. the shuttle was dismantled for parts, which are still used by the australian airline. the buran program was closed,
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but the buran curse did not disappear. the tragic incidents with the soviet shuttle pilots did not end there. former buran pilot alexey boroday got a job at sheremetyevo, transporting cargo abroad. on october 8 he flies to italy on a cargo ruslan plane. there are large clouds above the airfield, rain, visibility is almost zero, for borodai these conditions do not seem extreme, he is used to landing buran almost blindly, during training flights and when flying in a simulator, in preparation for the flight on buran, we created conditions for ourselves that were very harsh conditions, including landing completely blindfolded, i even experimented with this, so this approach did not seem like it was too difficult. the plane crashed onto the runway. the first pilot died without immediately regaining consciousness. the fuselage
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crushed another pilot who came to watch the landing. beard and rescuer pulled him out from under the rubble. he was alive, but unconscious with broken legs. in the first minute i realized that i was missing one leg. then, of course, the situation began to develop there. not according to plan, when after the second operation there was already a second amputation, there was no longer any talk about flying, there we just had to think about how to live, but nothing, it’s normal. june 5, 2001 in our office at work yuri shefer died on the table, the thrombus stopped his heart, he entered the office and everything collapsed, they didn’t even have time
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to call an ambulance, as they say. a month and a half later, on july 25 , 2001, test pilot yuri prikhodko died of cancer. of the entire buranovskaya team , only its commander, igor volk, lived to old age. it's like he's been charmed. in 40 years of working as a pilot, he did not have a single accident. his closest, absolutely his comrades-in-arms died, it was a severe blow, because how is it not... no matter how insulting, sad and i would even say, somewhere strange, but the best and closest ones left, so it was very difficult, it was very tense, because naturally they are all together, it’s like, in general, a pillar, a support, but when one at a time when the support is knocked out from under you, then naturally, it gets harder and
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harder for one, especially when it’s a team, the wolf left the take-off institute in 2002. he was written off due to health reasons. wolf was 65 years old at that time, but he still tried to regain the right to test aircraft, although to no avail. with the departure of igor volk the wolf pack ceased to exist. the buranovsky cosmonaut detachment was not disbanded or reorganized, it simply quietly disappeared and sunk into history. the detachment disappeared in march 2002 . may 12, 2002 baikanur cosmodrome 9 a.m. eight builders climb onto the concrete roof of installation and testing building number 358 to fix a large leak. the builders reached the highest section of the roof when it suddenly began to sag, a total of people fell down from a height of sixty meters. there was a lot of
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snow, you know, yes, there was a snowy winter there too on... this matter accumulated on the roof, and when it got warmer, the whole thing, in general, no one survived. in addition to people, the reusable buran spacecraft, the same one that in 1988 made the first and only flight into space under the buran energy program, also died under the concrete roof of the hull. the most powerful and most expensive soviet spacecraft. in general, in general, the sad fate of this program from the most successful launch and subsequent everything is just going to what is connected with the buran stage, what is connected with buran itself, everything it’s kind of sad, it’s kind of mystical, but it’s a fact, after the death of the ship, not
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a single tester who was preparing to fly on hello! i am pilot cosmonaut anton shkaplerov, this is a space stories podcast. on november 15, 1988, the orbital soviet spacecraft buran was launched. launches from baikanur on energia rocket launchers. the flight lasted 205 minutes and was fully automatic. this was a real triumph for soviet cosmonautics. today my
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guest is a test pilot, cosmonaut, hero. russia, valery ivanovichokev. valery ivanovich, hello, hello, let ’s first tell our tv viewers what this project was and why it was created in general. of course, this project was not only a scientific or technological program, one of the main tasks - it was a response to our potential opponents at that time, a response to star wars, by this time, the united states of america, a shuttle, a ship, yes , the united states of america has already successfully operated a space program for several years, which was called the space shuttle, when in fact, they reported to dmitry fodorovich
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ustinov, who was the minister of defense . a decision was made to create a similar project, although we had some groundwork in the soviet union, namely spaceships, of which there are many aircraft. were worked on at the mikayan design bureau, and then others grew from this spiral, there, in particular, it ’s the same shuttle, only smaller, the shuttle actually starts from a ground table and the launch is vertical, and at the spiral it’s an aircraft-type aircraft, spacecraft, aircraft type, but which launches with an external tank from a carrier, just like siral, it was a carrier, in fact there was only a supersonic carrier, and mriya was a subsonic one, which was created in the soviet union, well, on the eve of the collapse and
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several flight images flew, the mriya was specially created, yes absolutely right, the largest aircraft ever created in the world, yes, it was created as a carrier for this space... air launch system, which was also developed, well, at a later stage than buran, in fact, buran started to work, and then they came to the conclusion that it is necessary and there are such technical capabilities, and there are people who, in general , are ready to implement this, and the soviet union had the technical capabilities, in itself the flight of buran in automatic mode, although i i’m not a supporter of this flight, but this is my personal opinion, it’s just that there is certainly a guarantee of return, but the risk is completely unjustified, what a person can do more successfully than an automatic machine, one must trust the person, i think that many will agree with this, but i i even read the testers, and
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the cosmonauts who participated in this program, they even wrote a special letter in order to develop a manual landing system, that is, at the beginning it was really only designed to fly automatically, but we understand that the technology... sooner or later fails, i don’t even know it, duplicate it 100 times, this is technology, this is hardware, computers make mistakes, and there is a manual mode, there should be, you know, you and i, we docked in manual mode, and we know that a person who is quite easily trained can cope with the flight , and with docking, and even with with the landing of the plane, as they say, history has proven that well, yes, we take this integral in our heads... much more reliably than this machine calculates it, let’s say, for those same americans, there on the deck when they fly
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, they sit there as a backup, if the pilot gets completely lost, that is, his psychophysiological state will be such that he, which means then he turns on the machine in automatic mode, sits on the deck, but in real life they never use it, that is, this is a backup option , well, in principle, this should be the case here, and we we know according to the program... all the main landings were all done manually, no , they didn’t have them from the first flight, what was the triumph, it was that it was without a crew, that he landed himself, i have my opinion i’m expressing it now, but i can afford it, probably now, well then we wouldn’t be boasting about it now, at that time, i think it was a big breakthrough, at that time, yes, when we had one there in the soviet union a large electronic computer, like the sixth one or something, they put it there with titanic efforts into this one there several tons instead of the payload of this huge apparatus with the capabilities that this large electronic
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