When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American ... Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an Energia rocket, and performed ...

While the orbiters were remarkably similar, the launch systems were not. The American Space Shuttle used three main ... the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships ...

Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... He recalls watching the Buran’s flawless launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. November 15, 1988, dawned with a storm front from ...

Energia’s first launch was from the Baikonur space site ... It was capable of propelling into near-Earth orbits not only the Buran space shuttle, but any other payload having a mass of 100 ...

Background: www.buran-energia.com ... it was also being used to launch classified military satellites (see "Secret Space Shuttles," Aug. 2009). "The shuttle really scared the Soviets big-time ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive ... reaching 1.3 billion rubles by 1985. The first launch of the Energiya rocket took place on May ...

space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.