Editing Buran programme (section)

==== Planned flights ====
[[File:"Buran" docked to "Mir" space station.jpg|thumb|Planned ''Ptichka'' mission to Mir space station]]
The planned flights for the shuttles in 1989, before the downsizing of the project and eventual cancellation, were:<ref name="projected">{{cite web |url=http://www.buran.ru/htm/pilots.htm |script-title=ru:Экипажи "Бурана": Несбывшиеся планы |trans-title=The Crews of "Buran": Unfulfilled Plans |work=Buran.ru |first=Vadim |last=Lukashevich |access-date=5 August 2006 |language=ru |archive-date=17 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717053358/http://www.buran.ru/htm/pilots.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1991 — [[Ptichka|Orbiter 2K]] uncrewed first flight, duration 1–2 days.
* 1992 — Orbiter 2K uncrewed second flight, duration 7–8 days. Orbital manoeuvres and space station approach test.
* 1993 — ''Buran'' (1K) uncrewed second flight, duration 15–20 days.
* 1994 — [[2.01 (Buran-class spacecraft)|Orbiter 3K]] first crewed space test flight, duration of 24 hours. Craft equipped with life-support system and with two ejection seats. Crew would consist of two cosmonauts with [[Igor Volk]] as commander, and a flight engineer.
* 1994-1995 - Second, third, fourth and fifth crewed orbital test flights.

The planned uncrewed second flight of orbiter 2K was changed in 1991 to the following:
* December 1991 — Orbiter 2K uncrewed second flight, with a duration of 7–8 days. Orbital maneuvers and space station approach test: 
** automatic docking with [[Mir]]'s [[Kristall]] module
** crew transfer from Mir to the orbiter, with testing of some of its systems in the course of twenty-four hours, including the remote manipulator
** undocking and autonomous flight in orbit
** docking of the crewed [[Soyuz TM-101]] with orbiter 2K
** crew transfer from the Soyuz to the orbiter and onboard work in the course of twenty-four hours
** automatic undocking and landing