Built in the shadows of the Cold War, Buran was the USSR’s ultimate answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle – bigger, more versatile, ...

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 ...

In 1988, the world suddenly realized the Soviet Union had its own space shuttle - and it wasn’t a rumor. Buran had been built ...