The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was shelved.

Buran itself was destroyed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2002 when the hangar housing it collapsed. Another shuttle is also located at Baikonur, and a third rests at Zhukovsky Air Base near Moscow.

That said, internally, the Buran was very different than the U.S. shuttle, and when you look at the entire (as the NASA liked to call it) Space Transportation System, the advantages of the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle program stands as one of the saddest episodes in aerospace history. After NASA began working on its space shuttle program in the early 1970s, the Soviet Union ...

The Buran’s flight, which lasted 205 minutes, was a total sensation. The Soviet space shuttle was the first such craft anywhere in the world to land automatically, whereas American shuttles ...

The Soviet shuttle Buran would make only one unmanned flight in 1988, although it did demonstrate automated landing capability no American shuttle ever had. Two sister ships of Buran were ...

A full-size mockup of a Soviet Buran space shuttle is departing Moscow for an exhibition center opening at the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

The Buran program was cancelled two years later, having launched only a single uncrewed test flight in 1988. After sitting in storage for several years, the AN-225 was restored to flight as a ...

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