Abandoned in Kazakhstan

Ghosts of Soviet space shuttles.
Abandoned space shuttles left to rot in the middle of the desert
Alexander Kunas photographed a pair of high-tech craft after walking 24 miles across the desert to get to the Soviet cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

The Buran space program was shut down in 1993. The two shuttles never went into space.
The final version of the shuttle was named the Orbiter 1K1, and in 1988 an unmanned spacecraft was developed. It was stored in a neighboring support of the complex, but in 2002 the building collapsed, killing eight workers and destroying it.
Alexander, who photographed it, said: "Finding places where people can't enter is fun, it makes my photos unique. We walked 24 miles through a desert with big backpacks. We were still walking all night because the area was still safe and we didn't want anyone to see us during the day. .
: "It was dark when we got to the shuttle hangar, and I couldn't find the shuttles using my flashlight." I thought I got the wrong building.
Spaceships were built to carry a nation's aspirations into space, but now the shuttles are abandoned to rust.
The abandoned rocket, also known as Energia M, was developed in the 1980s but never launched. Alexander, a film director, spent three nights sleeping in the abandoned area.
Had the program continued instead of being abandoned in 1993, the powered rocket would have been used to propel the shuttles into space.
Alexander has explored other space rocket facilities and warns of how difficult it would be to sneak in and sleep in such buildings.
He added: "It didn't feel like we were alone here." We didn't talk much and only shouted when necessary. "We spent three nights on the cosmodrome. Every night we couldn't sleep because every sound of birds or wind woke me up.

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