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

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Short interview with Michael Nelmes about his recent article on the Buran shuttle. BREAKING: Supreme Court says govt. does not need to return wrongfully deported man by midnight Here's the Average ...

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 ...

This was how the An-225 Mriya came to be — as the transportation for the Buran shuttle orbiter and parts of the Energia rocket designed to put the Buran into orbit.

On November 15, 1988, a Buran space shuttle made two circles around the Earth’s orbit and landed at the Yubileiny airfield at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Picture shows the shattered space windows of a ...

Photographers captured Soviet Buran space shuttle at an abandoned hangar near Kazakhstan Cosmodrome The hangar houses two prototype shuttles that were part of the ill-fated 1980s Buran shuttle ...