Join us on a journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan to uncover the abandoned Buran space shuttles, hidden within the ...

Summary: Despite the clear parallels between the American and Soviet designs, including the external similarities and the utilization of shared technology, the Buran program embodied Moscow’s ambition ...

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 arrival.

During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched one of the most ambitious aerospace programs in its history: the development of the Buran, a reusable spacecraft visually similar to the ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...