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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 ...

Today, three versions of the Buran survive. One, a full-scale test model, is on display ... other country's astronauts into space. (Since NASA ended its shuttle program in 2011, American ...

the nearly completed Ptichka orbiter and a test model stand as decaying monuments to the USSR's ambitious attempt to rival NASA's Space Shuttle. This video delves into the history of the Buran ...

The U.S. space shuttle's three main engines returned to Earth with the orbiter after each flight. Buran relied on four main engines that were housed in a separate, disposable rocket stage.

Although the Soviet shuttle flew only ... Many in the Soviet space program thought the “Spiral” could be resuscitated as the model on which “Buran” would be built ...

It was a design that ultimately proved ideal for the task at hand, and even ended up being copied by the Russians for their never-launched Buran space shuttle. But before settling on copying the ...

He said there was a model of the Buran space shuttle in the building when the roof caved in. The Buran project is defunct: The craft flew only once, 14 years ago, then became a space dinosaur.

At least one Buran resuable spacecraft – closely modeled on the US Space Shuttle – currently sits ... While one full-scale test model is currently housed in a museum at Baikonur and one ...

Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... A couple of years ago, the model that Igor Volk flew was put on a barge and shipped to Australia for the Olympic games.