The Antonov An-225, the world’s largest plane, was built to transport the Buran space shuttle and support mid-air launches. Today, it’s a modern marvel in cargo aviation. This video explores ...

The An-225 is a unique aircraft not only in the ... purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed.

The An-225 is a unique aircraft not only in the ... purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed.

Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... this one to be launched from an “aerial cosmodrome”—an Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo aircraft. On the wall behind Lozinsky’s ...

The Kalashnikov Group firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) has assigned the Molniya Research and Production Association that developed the Soviet Buran space shuttle ...

a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state corporation said late on Thursday. "On October ...