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 ...

For some reason, my social media feeds lately have been filled with images of "Russia's secret space shuttles" that have fallen into ruin. This is a little puzzling, since those shuttles haven't been ...

MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. November 15, 2018 marks 30 years since the Buran reusable spacecraft performed its first and sole flight. The Buran was part of the Energia-Buran reusable space system. It ...

In many ways, Buran was more advanced than the Shuttle... Automation level was staggering (Shuttles would gain auto-landing capabilities many years later), it landed in weather conditions that ...

Summary: Despite the clear parallels between the American and Soviet designs, including the external similarities and the utilization of shared technology, the Buran program embodied Moscow’s ambition ...

The collapse of the roof of the Russian Energia/Buran shuttle and N-1 moon rocket assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome May 12 killed up to eight workers and could seriously disrupt use of the ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya was originally developed as part of the Soviet Energia-Buran space program. Engineers expanded the design of the Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft, lengthening the fuselage, ...

Acompaña a un grupo de exploradores urbanos en su arriesgada expedición al Cosmódromo de Baikonur, atravesando el desierto de ...