The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...

Join us on an extraordinary journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan as we uncover one of the Soviet Union's most ...

The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. Florida lawmaker ...

Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...

Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle ...

The design of NASA’s space shuttle, given what we know about the ... it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships were iterations on ...

The Kalashnikov Group firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) has assigned the Molniya Research and Production Association that developed the Soviet Buran space shuttle ...

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.

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STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...