Video: Baikonur without gloss
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
A year ago, five young people made an illegal entry into the Baikonur cosmodrome. In the end, the intruders were detained, but the travel report was still very interesting: photographs of the Energia small launch vehicle, abandoned workshops, and two Buran that had not yet flown. Moreover, they managed to get into one of the "Burans" directly into the cockpit.
1. "Energia-M" - a small version of a large rocket, designed to output 34 tons of load to LEO.
2. The first overnight stay of the expeditioners - on the perimeter, in the abandoned house of the Energia launch operators.
3. Nearby - the abandoned Sports and Concert Complex NPO Energia.
4. Inside it.
5. Then, after dark, they dashed across to the SDI - the "Energy" Dynamic Test Stand.
6. We ran to the top of the SDI workshop (the police were looking for traces) and hid there.
7. View from their shelter down to the rocket.
8. A rocket from a lower tier of the workshop.
9. Management stands.
10. Scale.
11. Downward view.
12. Then they climbed to the very roof of the workshop and began to observe the launch of the Soyuz, which was at 13.13.
13. Start (all these pictures were taken on a 400 mm telephoto camera, so they were not very close).
14. The rocket goes into the sky.
15. Other starts in other directions.
16. Top view. The height of the workshop is more than 100 m, it seems.
17. And this is the Assembly and Refueling Building, their next goal. It is there that the flightless "Burans" are stationed, see below.
18. Now they are going down to the base of the Energia-M rocket.
19. One of the engines.
20. Rocket from below.
21. Assembly and filling building, see also photo # 17.
22. Come inside.
23. Then they rise higher.
24. Top view, both "Burana" are seen. One is the second flight specimen ("Tempest"), and the other is the OK-MT technological model for testing prelaunch operations.
25. Another angle.
26. Scale. Two from below, one from above.
27. All went down. Also the scale, by the way.
28. Bottom view of one of the "Buran".
29. Under the body.
30. Front view.
31. The photographer also finally got on the ship.
32. Tail unit.
33. The ship was opened, they found the point of entry.
34. Buran's cargo hold. The ball in front is the docking knot.
35. They climbed into the docking station, then.
36. From here - upward.
37. And they are in the manned pressurized cabin of the Buran. Partially dismantled, of course.
38. But a lot is whole.
39. The seat of the commander of the spacecraft.
40. Then they left the facility and began to make their way into the steppe, but in the end they were caught. It's amazing that they managed to keep their photo session, well done. Apparently, they found a way and agreed somehow. Or they simply stuck the flash drive in advance.
Such is an interesting trip to the ruins of the disappeared non-trade civilization of highly developed earthlings. The report from the guys themselves is here.
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