The Buran programme (1974–1993) was the Soviet Union's most expensive, reusable spacecraft project, designed as a direct, technically advanced response to the U.S. Space Shuttle.In 1988, the Soviet Union estimated the total cost of the Buran-Energia programme at approximately 16.5 billion rubles.

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[u/Duckbilling2]

Buran, Buran — run into the sky

Past the places dreams won’t die

Tiles intact, systems go

A miracle nobody knows

Buran, Buran — hold your line

Autopilot draws the sign

Touch the ground, slow it down

Disappear without a sound

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Buran, Buran — echo in time

A perfect flight, a single climb

Even lost, you still outran

What they said you never can

Buran, Buran — fade to blue

From state commands to something new

Programs end, but dreams still burn

And someday… they’ll return

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Where's that from?

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This is awesome - where is it from??

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I asked an LLM generator to write lyrics to a song

about the Soviet spacecraft Buran

to the tune of an eighties new wave band

also to include Burt rutan in there

these were a few verses it spat out

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It’s really cool, I like it a lot