The Baikonur Russian cosmodrome security forces, located in Kazakhstan, have arrested three Spaniards on Wednesday and an Australian who tried to enter the hangar where the remains of the ill -fated Soviet space transforder of the Burán class are stored.
“Tonight in the vicinity of the assembly and supply complex of the transfers Burán were arrested three Spaniards and one Australian,” said the Russian state agency Ria Nóvosti, which cites a cosmodrome source.
At the moment the detainees are being interrogated, according to the Russian environment. Local authorities periodically stop tourists or explorers who try to enter these facilities illegally. In November of last year a Frenchman and a German were arrested, and months before, two other French.
In September 2023, three other Spaniards were arrested when they also tried to penetrate the assembly and supply complex of the Burán.
The Burán, a replica of the American Shuttle that flew only once (1988), is currently nothing more than a memory and their prototypes are museum pieces that interested parties can visit in the main exhibition center of Moscow or in the Speyer Technological Museum (Germany).
While the Shuttle made 135 missions and continued to fly until 2011, Russia opted to continue developing Soyuz and cooperate with the West in the construction of the International Space Station.
The Burán, symbol of greatness and the decline of the communist project, was destroyed when the ceiling of the industrial ship in which it was in Baikonur was collapsed.
But there is still one of the original ferries, named Buria, who lies abandoned, dusty, cracked, but still majestic, in some hangars in the inhospitable stepa Kazaja.
Thanks to the boldness of the Russian blogger Ralph Mirebs, who managed to photograph the famous tenants of these secrets, the images of the Buria and another prototype (OK-MT) incognito unknown.
