The Soviet Buran space shuttle program came to a grinding halt when the Iron Curtain fell in the early 90s, and as a new era of Russian freedom began another era came to a close.
The Buran came to represent the Soviet space program in many ways- it only managed to go on one automated orbital flight, more money was put into the ship's aesthetics than the actual functionality, and it was once considered extremely important but is now mothballed.
Photographer and urban explorer Ralph Mirebs went inside one of these mothballed space program buildings, a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and took some still life shots of the poor Buran shuttles left to rot.
There's a sense of sadness in his photos, a melancholy feeling over missed opportunities and the space tech that ran out of time.
-Via Gizmodo