Anyone remember the Buran program?  Buran would have been the late Soviet answer to the US Space Shuttle Program.  The USSR started to collapse, and the Buran program was ended.  The flagship of this program, the Buran, made one unmanned test flight, but was grounded after that.  Sadly, in 2002, eight workers were killed and the Buran completely destroyed after the hangar they were under collapsed due to neglect. 

The only thing left from the Buran program is a test shuttle, called OK-GLI.  That test shuttle itself is in rough shape, an Australian company bought it and made it into a tourist destination.  That company went bankrupt, and the OK-GLI was left out to face the elements, and suffered damage from vandals.  After that, it was bought by someone in Bahrain, where a German museum tracked down the OK-GLI.  The OK-GLI is on its way to the museum now.  Here are neat pics of it being ferried up the Rhine.

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