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Originally Posted by astronaut x
So the soviets copied our shit and couldn't even get it off the ground.
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1) They did not copied your shit, because your shit kills people (33% of all US shuttles have crashed with a fatal result - every 1/3 of all the US-made shuttles was broken. Too much even for the States...) So Buran was made from the scratch.
2) It was able to take off, get to the orbit and to land w/o accidents in a fully automatic mode (was operated by a robot).
3) The Soviet shuttle program was stopped when the cold war ended, because those toys were made for a military use.
Learn the history, moron.