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2010-02-05 05:07 pm

Space Shuttle BURAN 1988, USSR

First unmanned flight and landing of a space shuttle. In its first and last flight (15 November 1988) it made a completely automatic flight and landing, by doing so it entered to Guinnes World Records Book as the first completely automatic reusable space vehicle.

See also the end of story (in Russian).