This was in the news a few weeks back, in mid June: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-russian-abandoned-space-shuttles-by-ralph-mirebs-2015-6 http://www

This was in the news a few weeks back, in mid June: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-russian-abandoned-space-shuttles-by-ralph-mirebs-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-russian-abandoned-s... http://www.popsci.com/why-soviet-space-shuttle-was-left-rot http://www.popsci.com/why-soviet-space-shuttle-was-left-rot http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/17/buran-soviet-space-shuttles_n_7598308.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/17/buran-soviet-space-... My only thought is if this is a decommissioned facility, imagine all the steel that could be recycled and reused! With such a shortage of some metals around the world, I see places like this and wonder why nobody does a better job of reusing old steel like this.