The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

While the design of the Soviet shuttle was taken directly from documents produced in the mid 1970s, it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ...

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 ...

Some have speculated that the Buran Space Shuttle was part of that effort, as the Soviets envisaged being able to deploy laser weapons in orbit aboard the Buran shuttles meant to shoot down ...

On his blog, Mirebs asks "Why spend billions on ... space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the ...

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 ...