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 ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s arrival.

One of the Soviet Union's earliest spacecraft may be traded for a specific human skull if a bargain is struck with a Kazakh businessman. In 1988 the Soviet Union constructed the first Buran-class ...

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 ...

The roof collapse at the Russian Buran shuttle/N-1 Moon rocket assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome was far worse than first let on by Russian officials. New aerial photos show the roof of the ...

My Fiat 500X diesel stubbornly refuses to hit 200 kph. It's just sitting there at 197. I might as well be standing still. The way the Audi S8 passes me I might as well be. Oddly, it doesn't feel like ...

On November 15, 1988, the first and only launch of Buran space shuttle took place. Buran was lifted into space, on an unmanned mission, by the specially designed Energia rocket. Buran was designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...