Soviet-era space shuttle carrier aircraft destroyed in Russian attack on Ukraine

  • 📰 SPACEdotcom
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 17 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 10%
  • Publisher: 67%

Business Business Headlines News

Business Business Latest News,Business Business Headlines

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

"Currently, until the AN-225 has been inspected by experts, we cannot report on the technical condition of the aircraft," the company wrote.The news followed a string of unconfirmed reports that the Mriya had come under fire by Russian helicopters in an attack against the airport on Friday.

Later, Radio Liberty circulated on social media a photo, possibly taken by a drone, showing a fire rising from a hangar that appeared to match the known location of the AN-225. Aircraft enthusiasts shared marked up versions of the image, labeling what could be the Mriya's engines protruding out from the hangar.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Now, history is destroyed by it's own maker. Russia just broke their own history. Sad....

😠😧😮

Rip

Russia will be destroyed

История запомнит.

Things never matter………… Demise of imperishable things like love, purity, and humanity - a colossal disaster

Ouch

Russia is playing with Ukraine 🇺🇦 allowing them to commit suicide as the nerve agents Russia has that can kill 50 million people in EU. NO JOKE PEOPLE.

Oh no!!!

Just another bloody thing to add to the list in this unnecessary war

Sad.

Death of Mriya thanks to Ukraine wanting to join NATO.

Very sad.

Ukraine as part of European Union is able to build new one but much more modern. With European engines.

for THIS alone Russia should fall...

Sad, but still a small thing in a much, much larger ongoing tragedy...🇺🇦

She might be repairable. Stay POSITIVE!

😪😪😪

Russia has top of the line tanks and silver bears lol..

CakBambangelf Rest in war. 😭

Sad day in space aviation.

Hope Mriya AN-225 is just damaged and will be restored after the war

F

Not destroyed but damaged

😢

¿Que culpa tiene el avion?

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 92. in BUSİNESS

Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines