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 ...

Tensions are continuing to escalate between a Kazakh businessman and Russian space officials over the fate of the second Buran-class orbiter, named Burya. The businessman, Dauren Musa, claims ...

What happens when space programs are left to die? In the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, the Buran reusable spacecraft program was canceled, leaving the launchpads and equipment to decay. The ...

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 on ...

Join us on an extraordinary journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan as we uncover one of the Soviet Union's most ambitious projects—the abandoned Buran space shuttles. Hidden within the vast ...

Buran had the same delta wing at the same angle, the same shaped nose and the same orbital thrusters in the nose and other key locations. The Soviet program had the benefit of American shuttle ...

For some reason, my social media feeds lately have been filled with images of "Russia's secret space shuttles" that have fallen into ruin. This is a little puzzling, since those shuttles haven't been ...

What it’s about: Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of… actually, now that we mention it, that should be voyage. Singular. After losing the race to the moon, the Soviet space program ...

In many ways, Buran was more advanced than the Shuttle... Automation level was staggering (Shuttles would gain auto-landing capabilities many years later), it landed in weather conditions that ...