Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on. Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. November 15, 2018 marks 30 years since the Buran reusable spacecraft performed its first and sole flight. The Buran was part of the Energia-Buran reusable space system. It ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya was originally developed as part of the Soviet Energia-Buran space program. Engineers expanded the design of the Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft, lengthening the fuselage, ...

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 ...

With the documents in hand, and Vetrov’s role still unknown to his bosses at KGB headquarters, the CIA devised a plan to take revenge. In partnership with the FBI, the United States would “make ...

The collapse of the roof of the Russian Energia/Buran shuttle and N-1 moon rocket assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome May 12 killed up to eight workers and could seriously disrupt use of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A full-size mockup of a Russian space shuttle is leaving Moscow for an exhibition center opening ...

an Energia heavy-lift booster. The unmanned mission was the first and, as it turned out, only flight of Buran, the Soviet Union’s answer to the U.S. space shuttle. 1.5 meters from the center of the ...