Cardman wrote in
:

Kind of a shame that this one never had more use than the one
successful auto flight. As the Buran seemed to be a better "space
shuttle" than the US Space Shuttle is.

That's because most of Buran's purported capabilities were only
demonstrated on paper. A paper spacecraft can always be made to look better
than a real one.

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