As NASA and SpaceX pivot toward speeding astronauts to Mars, U.S. scientists are testing technologies that could transform ...

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

Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program.

Short interview with Michael Nelmes about his recent article on the Buran shuttle. Trump announces two new national holidays, including one on Veterans Day Medicaid Funding Reduction Suggested by ...

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...

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 ...

Russian space agency Roscosmos named their space shuttle Buran. Besides the space docking manoeuvre, there is another key mission objective. ISRO plans to experiment with microgravity during the ...

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union developed a large crewed spaceplane called Buran, which made one automated orbital flight, a 3-hour journey in 1988. The Space Shuttle performed 10 classified missions out of 135 ...