It's certainly not
new space exploration coolness, but here's a nice annotated gallery about the Buran and Energia rockets with some pics and videos I'd not seen before:
https://imgur.com/a/GaDej
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The Buran was, quite simply put, the USSR's answer to the U.S.'s new-fangled reusable Space Shuttle. Also known as the VKK (Air Space Ship) Orbiter, it was the largest and most expensive project in the history of Soviet space exploration - and yet, there was only one unmanned flight in 1988. To an untrained eye, it looks near identical to a Shuttle, but under the skin you find the two craft are very different beasts.
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