The National Interest

Soviet Union’s Buran Space Shuttle Is on the Dustheap of History. Does It Belong There?

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 ...
Gizmodo

Abandoned remains from the Soviet Shuttle Program

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 ...
The National Interest

Space Race Shadows: The Untold Story of Russia’s Buran Space Shuttle

Summary: Despite the clear parallels between the American and Soviet designs, including the external similarities and the utilization of shared technology, the Buran program embodied Moscow’s ambition ...
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Launching the spaceship Buran secrets of space in the USSR

Explore the story behind the launch of the Buran spacecraft and the remarkable achievements, technology, and hidden history ...
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In November 1988, an unmanned Soviet space shuttle called Buran flew a full orbital mission and landed itself in a blizzard at Baikonur without a single human input, and three ...

On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, circled the Earth twice, and ...
CNN

Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe

It was the Soviet response to the space shuttle, designed to take the Cold War into space. But after just one flight, it was mothballed. Now, the ruins of what was called the Buran program are left to ...
Ars Technica

Let’s make a deal: Entrepreneur wants to trade Buran shuttle for a skull

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 ...
Astronomy

Nov. 15, 1988: The Buran orbiter launches

In 1976, the Soviet Union began development of the Buran orbiter. Concerned that the American space shuttle program might be used for military purposes, the Soviets responded with Buran and its ...
TASS

Buran space shuttle marks 30th flight anniversary

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 ...
CNN

Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe

It was the Soviet response to the space shuttle, designed to take the Cold War into space. But after just one flight, it was mothballed. Now, the ruins of what was called the Buran program are left to ...