From memories of the moon landing to the Mars rover, spectators of SpaceX's 9th Starship test flight have a close connection ...

Built to rival NASA’s shuttle, the Buran flew just once—unmanned, flawless, and then never again. This is the story behind the USSR’s ambitious clone.

Here's what it looks like to spend months on the International Space Station. Since 1998, the International Space Station has had over 280 visitors. The International Space Station as seen by ...

The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. U.S. Bank says it believes its vice chair was on plane that crashed in Minnesota ...

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 ...

It was a design that ultimately proved ideal for the task at hand, and even ended up being copied by the Russians for their never-launched Buran space shuttle. But before settling on copying the ...

It might also recall the Soviet Union’s ill-fated Buran space shuttle, which completed one successful uncrewed flight in 1988 before being discontinued. But the newer planes currently being ...

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the Buran vehicles had engines located at the back, and two wings for a controlled landing back on Earth. The Russian model had striking external similarities to the US Space Shuttle Columbia ...

and liftoff, liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission, and it has cleared the tower.” In the grandstands, Ed and Grace Corrigan stood side by side and watched their daughter ascend toward orbit ...

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 ...