In an effort to be the first to field a fully reusable spaceplane of the same size and scale as the Space Shuttle, Dawn ...

The world of aviation is full of glamour, excitement, and technological marvels, but there’s another side to it—one where old, forgotten planes lie abandoned, often in mysterious or dramatic ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

ISRO's launch was onboard the workhorse PSLV-C60 ... Russian space agency Roscosmos named their space shuttle Buran. Besides the space docking manoeuvre, there is another key mission objective.

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle ... after its launch the Berlin Wall fell and the program was paused before, ultimately, getting canned in 1993. Now, if you want to see the Buran space plane for ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union ... in the 1980s the U.S. military used it occasionally to launch satellites and perform other classified activities.

It might also recall the Soviet Union’s ill-fated Buran space shuttle, which completed one ... An official announcement after its December 14 launch said the spacecraft would “carry out ...

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 ...

China’s shadowy, uncrewed reusable spacecraft, which launches atop a rocket booster ... a large crewed spaceplane called Buran, which made one automated orbital flight, a 3-hour journey in 1988. The ...

However, the Soviets needed something bigger to carry its Buran spacecraft ... called Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, to carry the Space Shuttles between their landing sites and launch sites, like ...