While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital ...
I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...
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Built during the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Buran shuttle was designed to rival NASA’s Space Transportation System and surpass it in one critical way: it could fly and land entirely on its own ...