Built to rival NASA’s shuttle, the Buran flew just once—unmanned, flawless, and then never again. This is the story behind the USSR’s ambitious clone.

The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. What happens to your body if you eat eggs every day? Dim sum to dessert soup, 5 of ...

Space Race Shadows: The Untold Story of Russia’s Buran Space Shuttle Summary: Despite the clear parallels between the American and Soviet designs, including the external similarities and the ...

America's efforts in designing a reusable spacecraft ended with the creation of the Space Shuttle, an aircraft-like machine that launched on a rocket, maneuvered using its own engines, and then ...

This is a white ceramic tile made for the Soviet space shuttle Buran. The Buran was a Soviet effort to replicate the American space shuttle program. The spacecraft had one voyage, without a crew in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Harrison Kass April 19, 2025 Security The Soviet’s Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder ...