The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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 ...

RSC Energia, Russia's lead contractor for crew spacecraft ... See more photos of the Buran OK-KS space shuttle being prepared to ship to the Sirius Science and Art Park in Sochi at collectSPACE.

The Soviet Buran Program’s Challenge to American ... none were as curious—and blatant—as the Soviet Space Shuttle. The American Space Shuttle program was designed to create a spacecraft ...

Why were Buran flights called off after its triumphant launch, and will we ever see a Russian space shuttle take to the skies? The Buran’s flight, which lasted 205 minutes, was a total sensation.

Soviet Union's Buran Space Shuttle Is on the Dustheap of History. Does It Belong There? The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR ...

The Soviet shuttle bore a striking resemblance to ... the craft on training flights (in Earth’s atmosphere, not in space), but Buran was ultimately designed to travel without the need for ...

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 ...

This was the second orbiter built as part of the Soviet Buran program, which aimed to produce a fleet of space shuttle-like vehicles four decades ago. At the time of the program's cancellation in ...

in Russia’s first such project since the late Soviet Union’s ill-fated Buran space shuttle. A full-size model of the plane was presented at a closed pavilion during a Russian military forum ...