The An-225 is a unique aircraft not only in the ... purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed.

Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... this one to be launched from an “aerial cosmodrome”—an Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo aircraft. On the wall behind Lozinsky’s ...

a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state corporation said late on Thursday. "On October ...