The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. #TheMoment legendary grizzly 'The Boss' came out of hibernation Visit of the ...

Building the Buran The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated, if not as high-quality.

The American Space Shuttle program was designed to create a spacecraft that could act as an inexpensive, reusable connector between Earth and low Earth orbit. The shuttle was capable of carrying ...

With a wingspan of 117 metres, the six-engine plane will be larger than the Antonov An-225, a Soviet-era cargo plane built to transport the Buran space shuttle Reuters Published Jun 20, 2016 • 3 ...

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.