The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry. On the surface, it looked nearly identical - but its origins tell a deeper ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American ... Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an Energia rocket, and performed ...

Like NASA’s space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors ... He recalls watching the Buran’s flawless launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. November 15, 1988, dawned with a storm front from ...

As a result, the enterprise has the chance to continue its activities and launch work ... The space shuttle performed a crewless flight that lasted 205 minutes. The Buran was the first spacecraft ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive ... reaching 1.3 billion rubles by 1985. The first launch of the Energiya rocket took place on May ...

space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.