It was 1986, and the Cold War was still as icy as ever. The Iron Curtain was drawn; the US was busy illegally selling arms to ...

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

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 ...

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

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. It flew one time.

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 ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth.

Two flight units of the Buran Soviet/Russian reusable space shuttle program lay abandoned amongst a crumbling hangar. They were intended to rival NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters.

Photographers captured Soviet Buran space shuttle at an abandoned hangar near Kazakhstan Cosmodrome The hangar houses two prototype shuttles that were part of the ill-fated 1980s Buran shuttle ...