On November 15, 1988, the superheavy rocket Energia with the Buran ship was launched from Baikonur.
As it turned out, this was the first and only flight of the ship that was ahead of its time.
Alexander Kozlovtsev, the leading engineer of the Buran spacecraft, Leonid Kadenyuk, the test pilot, Yuri Semenov, the chief designer of the Buran, Oleg Baklanov, the former Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR, Sergey Sergeev, a participant in the launch of the Energia-Buran system, Oleg Ostapenko, the head of Roscosmos, recall the creation of the Energia-Buran system and the historic launch.
Personnel:
Kadenyuk L.K. - Candidate of Technical Sciences, pilot-cosmonaut, tester of reusable space systems. Semenov Yu.P. - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, General Designer of NPO Energia (1989-2005). Baklanov O.D. - Soviet economic and political figure, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1983-1988), Hero of Socialist Labor. Ostapenko O.N. -- Doctor of Technical Sciences, Candidate of Military Sciences, Honored Military Specialist of the Russian Federation, Head of the FKA "Roscosmos" (2013-2015).
Calendar: 11.16.2013