One Hit Wonder 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 ...

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 Soviet program had the benefit of American shuttle blueprints obtained by the KGB. At its peak, more than 150,0000 engineers, scientists and others worked on the Buran project.

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.

Last week, Russian photographer Ralph Mirebs posted an album of the Soviet shuttle languishing in a hangar. This is why the program never took off.

This was the second orbiter built as part of the Soviet Buran program, which aimed to produce a fleet of space shuttle-like vehicles four decades ago.

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

In the second half of a series on the Soviet space shuttle, NBC News' Robert Windrem retraces how the Reagan administration responded to the espionage case.

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 ...

The space shuttle program is history now, but its iconic names still stir memories of spaceflight adventure: Enterprise, Challenger, Buran. Wait, Buran?

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 ...