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 ...

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The roof collapse at the Russian Buran shuttle/N-1 Moon rocket assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome was far worse than first let on by Russian officials. New aerial photos show the roof of the ...

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 ...

The space race was a cornerstone of the Cold War between Soviets and Americans. But long after America won the ideological race to put humans on the moon, the game has turned into a cooperative ...

Key Point: The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote in space history. The intense rivalry between the ...

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our ...

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 Russian space program has many museums celebrating its space history in Moscow and Baikonur, Kazakhstan (near the Baikonur Cosmodrome), honoring everything from the first people in space to the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is developing a reusable spaceplane, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov conglomerate said on Wednesday, in Russia's first such project since the late Soviet Union's ill-fated ...

On November 15, 1988, the first and only launch of Buran space shuttle took place. Buran was lifted into space, on an unmanned mission, by the specially designed Energia rocket. Buran was designed to ...