The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was ...

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 US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

On his blog, Mirebs asks "Why spend billions on ... space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the ...