It looked a lot like the US space shuttle, with some technical differences. The result of their efforts the Buran ("Snowstorm" in Russian) Space Shuttle. The time-honoured Soviet method of rectifying such situations was to copy the foreign technology, which is exactly what they did. Back in June 1974, the success of the US Apollo space missions and the failure of their own programs pointed to serious deficiencies in the technology base of the Soviet Union.
Not too many people know that, not only did Russia had their own space shuttle, and that it came to Sydney in 2000. The day a Russian space shuttle came to Sydney Moore's Stores are located at the end of Towns Place. Being a building of historic significance, it was dismantled and rebuilt stone by stone some two metres further back to make room for the new road and dock extensions. The redevelopment included the creation of Hickson Road around the shoreline from Cockle Bay to Sydney Cove, but Moore's Stores on the tip of Millers Point stood in the way. Its mail steamer, the SS Chusan, berthed at Moore's Wharf in 1852, commencing a service that began a tradition of carriage of the Royal Mail which continued for over a century.ĭuring the early years of the 20th century, the landscape of Millers Point was totally changed subsequent to its resumption by the Government as part of the eradication of the Bubonic plague. Moore and his son established an agency for the P&O shipping line. The stores were built of locally quarried sandstone and used from 1840 by Captain Joseph Moore to conduct his import and export business. A sandstone building erected as a warehouse in the 1830s on Millers Point, Moore's Stores is one of the few buildings in Sydney that stood in the way of progress but survived by being moved.
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