The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. What happens to ...

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried ... it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships were iterations on a design, arguably ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...

but also because it was manufactured for the special purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed. Its ...

The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

The Kalashnikov Group firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) has assigned the Molniya Research and Production Association that developed the Soviet Buran space shuttle ...

A must-see attraction is the Museum of the History of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in the heart of the facility. It ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program ... The Space Shuttle project was approved in 1969, boosted by NASA’s success with the Apollo moon landing. That the Soviet space program ...