The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

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Sierra Space has been working on a spacecraft with the nostalgia of NASA's space shuttle program. Dream Chaser, a cargo space plane capable of runway landings, is set to launch for the first time ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

After spending months and more than $250 million campaigning to elect President Trump, Elon Musk made a call late last year to help roll out his plan for humanity’s path beyond Earth.

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The US Space Force has a contract worth up to US$60 million to develop and fly a kind-of aircraft carrier in space. No, it's not the result of a major typo. It's intended as a way to station space ...

Rocket Lab USA Neutron (left) and Stoke Space’s Nova (right) has been awarded National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 FY25 On-Ramp IDIQ contracts .Credit: Rocket Lab and Stoke Space ...

Some have speculated that the Buran Space Shuttle was part of that effort, as the Soviets envisaged being able to deploy laser weapons in orbit aboard the Buran shuttles meant to shoot down ...

I think more telling was that it couldn't be made any other way. At least at the time - not sure about now. The SRB's are SOLID FUEL, which means you have to fill them with a propellant that then ...

The crew will participate in human health research, including capturing the first X-ray image of a human body in space. Update: SpaceX has pushed the liftoff time of Fram2 back to no earlier than ...

"Now is the time to start thinking and talking about mitigating the threat of piracy in space." Put on your eye patch and crank up your best "arrr." And while you're at it, plop down a stack of ...