IMAGE 300_399\378.Lbm,Mounted on the Energia launcher, Buran makes its way to the launch pad at Baikonur in 1988.
IMAGE 300_399\379.Lbm,Preparations are made on the Energia launch pad at Baikonur for the maiden flight of Buran in November 1988.
IMAGE 300_399\380.Lbm,Buran, mounted on Energia, is being checked out on the launch pad at Baikonur in November 1988.
IMAGE 300_399\383.Lbm,Buran/Energia launch complex at Baikonur, showing flame trench.
IMAGE 300_399\386.Lbm,The massive core stages of Energia, being completed at the Energia assembly building at Baikonur, March 1991.
IMAGE 300_399\387.Lbm,In the Energia assembly building at Baikonur, work is almost completed on two of the liquid-fuelled boosters.
IMAGE 300_399\388.Lbm,Front end of one of Energia's liquid-fuelled boosters.
IMAGE 300_399\389.Lbm,Business end of one of Energia's liquid-fuelled boosters.
IMAGE 700_799\771.Lbm,The Russian Energia launch vehicle on the launch pad at Baikonur being prepared for its first space flight in May 1987.
IMAGE 700_799\772.Lbm,Energia blasts off the Baikonur launch pad on May 15, 1987, on a successful first flight, becoming the most powerful operational launch vehicle in the world.
