The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

"They thought that maybe the [U.S.] space shuttle was going to be doing shallow ... It's only speculation, but if true, it would mean that the old Soviet Union ultimately succeeded in getting ...

By Sage Rohrbach An image of the New Shepard Capsule, the same capsule that carried celebrities Katy Perry and Gayle King.  Courtesy of NASA Flight Opportunities via Wikimedia Commons In 1961, ...

including heat-resistant alloys and ceramic tiles—technologies that foreshadowed those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive ... 1,206 enterprises from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed in 1993.