A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...
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How the USSR built Buran, the Soviet shuttle shaped by espionage, public NASA data, and early online spying
After Apollo 11 shifted the space race, Soviet leaders feared the U.S. Shuttle could become a space bomber and rushed to build a counterpart. This story traces how public documents, covert ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a white ceramic tile made for ...
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The red blizzard – inside the Soviet Union’s forgotten Buran space shuttle
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost identical design but unique capabilities, it became a Cold War symbol of ambition ...
On Saturday we discussed five of the never-made Soviet and Russian rockets and spacecraft that, had they been produced after being imagined, would have certainly stolen the spotlight from the U.S. in ...
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