The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Famously, at one point, NASA had to find parts for the Shuttle--parts that no one else made anymore--on eBay. On the other hand, the Soyuz, the vehicle of choice of the Russian Space Agency (RSA ...

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

The Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle program stands as one of the saddest episodes in aerospace history. After NASA began working on its space shuttle program in the early 1970s, the Soviet ...

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our ...

It was the first U.S. shuttle to rendezvous with (but not dock at) Mir in 1995. Its second and last trip to Mir was in 1998, when it actually linked up with the Russian space station. You can ...

The space shuttle project was forged in the optimism of NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the surface of the moon and bested America’s Soviet rivals during the Cold War.

Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia ... and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency. Ten years later, the heavens were crowded by comparison ...