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

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 sophisticated man-made machine ever ...

The American Shuttle Program was an effort spread over dozens ... it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships were iterations on a design ...

For the people who worked on it, this was another of the program’s bitter ironies. The first contingent of nine cosmonauts assigned to Buran in 1977, a year before NASA hired its first shuttle ...

The stars of the project, called the Buran program, were its space shuttles, which were built in secret from designs the Soviet secret police stole from NASA. The Soviets invested anywhere from ...

The program reflected an emphasis by the Soviets ... those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on small thrusters for maneuvering ...

The Kalashnikov Group firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) has assigned the Molniya Research and Production Association that developed the Soviet Buran space shuttle ...