Wired: Unsung Soviet Shuttle Program Doesn’t Get Star Treatment

From Wired:

As NASA starts retiring its space shuttle fleet to museums, photos of the Soviet shuttle counterpart show a strange and improbable endgame to a once grand space race.

Unfinished pieces of the mostly obscure Soviet shuttle program could recently be found in the courtyard of a random hospital, and the entire fuselage of another model was spotted behind a warehouse under a tarp, as shown in the photos above.

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