The apparent suicide of Russia’s transportation minister brought expressions of shock and sorrow from the Kremlin but no new ...

It was 1986, and the Cold War was still as icy as ever. The Iron Curtain was drawn; the US was busy illegally selling arms to ...

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

Ekaterinburg's aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle's ...

The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program.

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. It flew one time.

The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an ...

A ROTTING pair of Russian space rockets have been left gathering dust for 30 years inside an eerie abandoned warehouse. The giant £189million shuttles failed to ever make it into orbit leaving ...

Two flight units of the Buran Soviet/Russian reusable space shuttle program lay abandoned amongst a crumbling hangar. They were intended to rival NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters.