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Energia 1L and Buran stacked on pad 37.

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“Energia” expandable launch system mated with “Buran” orbitale reusable spacecraft on launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh SSR. USSR on March 21, 1988. (Photo by Albert Pushkarev/ITAR-TASS)