A group named Exploring the Unbeaten Path broke into an apparently still maintained Soviet base's hangar and proceeded to record it and the space shuttles inside.
Video is included in the article, and it also features them spying on workers and security a few hundred yards away.
A group of YouTubers going by the name Exploring the Unbeaten Path traveled to the middle of nowhere to get a look at some space shuttles from the suspended Soviet-era Buran programme. Located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan, the hanger that the group would have to infiltrate is abandoned but the base is still active.
The world's first and largest space launch facility, Baikonur is leased by the Russian government and all crewed Russian missions still launch from there. Commercial and military missions are also staged at the spaceport, and soldiers patrol the area.
Although the explorers have numerous scares, they manage to get into the facility and spend a lot of time. They brought back tons of footage of the shuttles on the inside and out, even managing to fly a drone through the enormous hanger.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday July 14 2017, @07:54PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Friday July 14 2017, @08:30PM (3 children)
Wasn't this was covered by SN before?
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=7965 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 15 2017, @04:03AM (2 children)
Yup I remember submitting that.
I find it amazing that sneaking into a government warehouse in the USA gets you arrested and jailed.
But in Russia, totalitarian dictatorship gulag Archipelago, etc, etc, you put it all on line and nobody gives a rats ass.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @04:26AM
Even the submitters don't RTFA. The hangar is not in Russia. It's at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Like another comment said, Russia leases it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @06:12PM
Yeah, well... These guys are not Russian and the place is in Kazakhstan. I'd say these Swedes (or Norwegians) posted the stuff online after they returned to home.