"John Doe" wrote in message ...
Rene Altena wrote:
How do you qualify the russian Buran spacecraft (even though it is out of
service)?

Buran is history. There are no plans to fly it again. (what is the
status of the Buran that was in the hangar whose roof collapsed ?). And
because its name was/is "Buran", it wouldn't have been confused with the
NASA "Shuttle".

You know what 'Buran' means? Russia always gives symbolical, not functional
names. They would not call their 'shuttle' (that is wat it was!) 'Shuttle'.
They called it 'Snow storm'. I also heard 'Loejo' (storm) was one of the
possibilities.

Rene