The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

A top Russian aerospace company presented a mockup of a reusable ship yesterday for space tourists ready to pay $100,000 (U.S.) to spend three minutes in zero gravity on a suborbital flight. The ...

The Molniya facility designed the long-mothballed Buran space shuttle in the 1980s in response the launch of the U.S. space shuttle program during the Cold War era. But the Buran flew only once.