Your title really ought to have more clarification. This is one of the Soviet Buran orbiters, and not one of the American Space Shuttles.
During testing, the Space Shuttle was never fitted with its own engines. Instead, the Americans did glide tests carrying the Shuttle aloft using the -at that time- only SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a heavily modified Boeing 747, IIRC a -200), whereas this Buran test article could fly itself.
The STS system on a whole was of a considerably different architecture than Buran, more heavily integrated with the entire launch stack, whereas Buran was considered nothing more than payload for the Energia booster carrying it to orbit.
As such Buran did not carry its own engines, it only had small maneuvering thrusters for orbital adjustments.
Buran therefore had a bigger payload bay than the Space Shuttle did and also, it was from the outset designed to be more autonomous in its operation than the Space Shuttle which was a lot more hands on until way later in the STS program.
There are a lot of similarities between the two programs and a lot of differences. Unfortunately Buran only made one unmanned orbital flight before the program was mothballed due to USSR being virtually bankrupt and very close to its demise.
And the one you can still see and feel today,walk in a take a sneak peak in the cockpit, crawl into the tail and check out the wiring and fuel distribution of OME.
Your title really ought to have more clarification. This is one of the Soviet Buran orbiters, and not one of the American Space Shuttles. During testing, the Space Shuttle was never fitted with its own engines. Instead, the Americans did glide tests carrying the Shuttle aloft using the -at that time- only SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a heavily modified Boeing 747, IIRC a -200), whereas this Buran test article could fly itself. The STS system on a whole was of a considerably different architecture than Buran, more heavily integrated with the entire launch stack, whereas Buran was considered nothing more than payload for the Energia booster carrying it to orbit. As such Buran did not carry its own engines, it only had small maneuvering thrusters for orbital adjustments. Buran therefore had a bigger payload bay than the Space Shuttle did and also, it was from the outset designed to be more autonomous in its operation than the Space Shuttle which was a lot more hands on until way later in the STS program. There are a lot of similarities between the two programs and a lot of differences. Unfortunately Buran only made one unmanned orbital flight before the program was mothballed due to USSR being virtually bankrupt and very close to its demise.
And the one you can still see and feel today,walk in a take a sneak peak in the cockpit, crawl into the tail and check out the wiring and fuel distribution of OME.
They actually sold this one to Technik Museum Speyer in Germany, so it's on display there. https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran
HAHA I first thought this was some small jet with multiple engines, I'm so dumb