The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time.

One Hit Wonder. The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed.Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on.Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

Then on April 8, 1987, the international relations arm of the Soviet Ministry of General Machine Building acknowledged that the Soviet Union was building a space shuttle. It was called Buran ...

The U.S. shuttle could carry into space only what fit into its cargo bay, but the powerful Soviet rocket could haul most anything into space at much heavier payloads of over 100 tons.

A full-size mockup of a Soviet Buran space shuttle is departing Moscow for an exhibition center opening at the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The Soviet shuttle Buran would make only one ... do you guys think that some sort of “Space Shuttle 2” based on Soviet conceptual modifications and on contemporary space technology would ...

In the second half of a series on the Soviet space shuttle, ... Soviet officials had decided to put the Buran and Energia facilities on the old N-1 site of the failed moon program.

Pictures of the Soviet Space Shuttle in its hanger have been making the rounds on the internet recently, but there’s another shuttle out there. Russian photographer Aleksander Markin came across ...

The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an ...