The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated ...

Twenty-six years after its maiden flight, NASA's space shuttle ... its name has become synonymous with the spirit of exploration and human spaceflight. So, where did the shuttle's designation ...

When U.S. space shuttles ... the U.S. shuttle design in the '70s and '80s. That theft permitted the Soviet Union to build its own carbon copy of the U.S. system, called the Buran, thus ...

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 Soviet Union stunned western observers by launching Buran, its clone of the NASA space shuttle, into low Earth orbit. After circling the globe twice, the uncrewed spacecraft – its name means ...

Moscow had known for years that Washington had been tinkering with winged, reusable spacecraft. Designs such as the X-20 Dyna-Soar had tipped America’s hand. The Space Shuttle project was ...

More pics and that epic press release below. Mercedes-Benz Actros heavy-duty tractor unit brings BURAN space shuttle to the Technik-Museum in Speyer Actros SLT 4160 8x6/4 heavy-duty transport ...

The name was fitting. In Russian ... Without the Soviet space program and its Buran space shuttle, the 3M bomber would’ve enjoyed quiet retirement. Because of its mixed service record ...