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Ho. Lee. Shit.
http://ralphmirebs...al.com/219949.html
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Literally the most amazing derelict location I have ever seen. Someone buy me a plane ticket to Kazakhstan please.
For people wondering just what they are - it's the remains of the Soviet Space Shuttle Program, abandoned in 1993 in a hangar in Kazakhstan. And it's the most epic thing I have ever seen.
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Interior cabin pics are amazing, about as close as most of us will ever get to seeing the insides of one of these things
http://www.flickr....rescueme1060/sets/
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So--take that, Detroit. Nice find.
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F'n sweet
Zen and the art of infiltration...
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I like.
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The green indoor/outdoor carpet is a nice touch!
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I cannot think of many things more epic than this. This find might even be greater than the entire abandoned city of Pripyat and that's saying a lot. For the most part though, I am speechless and feel insignificant... Nonetheless, thank you for finding this epicness and sharing it with all of us!
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Someone posted pictures from this place on UER a few years back I remember seeing it, Totally awesome.
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It's on /r/all on reddit, front page. Shit. Let the vultures ascend upon it, although I hope it is secure enough to keep looters out.
EDIT: Also, epic find. The pictures are fantastic and I can feel the sheer size of that thing just staring at my laptop screen. Like standing next to a mountain, and you just feel so small.
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ha, looks like they had problems with the heat resistant tiles on the leading edges falling off too..
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Those - Ptichka for sure, at least - need to be in a museum sooner than later. The only Buran that actually went to space was destroyed in a hangar collapse over a decade ago.
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Posted by JennyUE
It's on /r/all on reddit, front page. Shit. Let the vultures ascend upon it, although I hope it is secure enough to keep looters out.
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I don't think there is any immediate danger of that happening. The hangar is located on a live base, where rockets and whatever are launched up to the International Space Station as well as other stuff. Plus it's in Kazakhstan so I can't see them taking too kindly to any funny business over there.
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Posted by mookster
I don't think there is any immediate danger of that happening. The hangar is located on a live base, where rockets and whatever are launched up to the International Space Station as well as other stuff. Plus it's in Kazakhstan so I can't see them taking too kindly to any funny business over there.
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Makes me wonder exactly how access was gained in the first place...
Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
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Posted by Harvestman
Makes me wonder exactly how access was gained in the first place...
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Sadly for us it was a tour. But from what the diggers say: if you are Russian, know who to speak to and don't mind waiting a very long time for the opportunity with no guarantee you'll be taken to this specific part, you can go visit the base too. Quite a few Russian explorers have successfully done it now, this is just the first visit that's been picked up by the western media.
There's a bunch of explorer visits buried in the skanky depths of livejournal, but good luck searching for those. This is the last "popular" visit from 2011.
http://englishruss...uction/#more-66501
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This epicness been all over media yeah...
I used to live in that part of the world but nowhere close to Baikonur.
Another thing of that scale I can think of is Pyestock, but its fully gone, which is a crime against history=((
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Posted by strangePlaces
Another thing of that scale I can think of is Pyestock, but its fully gone, which is a crime against history=((
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Tell me about it. I was lucky enough to explore Pyestock four times back in 2010, and I only ever saw about half of the place. That is one place which should never have been demolished, and would have made a perfect candidate for an industrial/science museum. Instead there is going to be a massive supermarket distribution depot built on the land. So much for history, there will never be another industrial location of such scale, magnitude and importance in these circles ever again.
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Pretty awesome, places like these usually have aux. buildings within driving distance (and on top of that railroad junctions). Curiously I am wondering what else is left to rust (in nearby mountain(s)).
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This might be the best find I've ever seen
http://www.cnn.com...shuttle/index.html
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This thing is completely amazing! O.O
Thanks for sharing!
-Drago
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