The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was ...

The Molniya Research and Production Association is the designer of the Soviet Buran reusable spaceship and is a leading Russian producer of targeted missiles. The Buran is a Soviet reusable spaceship.

A structural test article of the Soviet Buran space shuttle, on display in Moscow in 2017. WHEN VICTOR ZABOLOTSKY, A TEST PILOT WHO ONCE TRAINED TO FLY the Soviet Buran space shuttle, thinks back ...

MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state ...

Along the way, we unravel the incredible story of the Buran program ... drawing a mix of emotions Russian cargo ship docks at space station with science, spacesuit and supplies Irish county ...