Space Shuttle, Baikonur Cosmodrome
This was a secret site built by the Soviet Union in the area that is now known as Kazakhstan. This was the same site from where the Soviet Union launched Yuri Gagarin in April, 1961. This abandoned space shuttle is named “Buron” and it flew only once in November 1988. The goal of the mission was to take 30 tons into space and return with only 20 tons. However, the mission was abandoned after the fall of the Communist Government in 1991.
