Stock Photo - BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - NOVEMBER 22, 2021: The mission control station for the Energia rocket carrier that carried the Buran Soviet/Russian reusable space shuttle to the orbit. Buran was launched on the Energia rocket carrier from Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 15, 1988, made two circles around the Earth orbit and landed at the Yubileiny airfield at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft that actually flew to space was destroyed in a Baikonur hangar roof collapse in 2002. The surviving Buran flight unit which was never launched as the Buran program was closed, and a mock-up of the spacecraft remain at Baikonur. Sergei Savostyanov/TASS.