Built to rival NASA’s shuttle, the Buran flew just once—unmanned, flawless, and then never again. This is the story behind the USSR’s ambitious clone.

Deep within the Baikonur Cosmodrome lies a haunting sight—abandoned Soviet space shuttles, once symbols of Cold War ambition and cutting-edge engineering. This video explores the rise and fall of the ...

But take a step back: at the dawn of the original space race, the Soviet Union and the United ... the new arrivals to tea instead. The American model is not how frontiers work.

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

The Russian model had striking external similarities to the US Space Shuttle Columbia sparking suggestions Cold War espionage may have played a part in its development. Both US Space Shuttles ...

She might have lacked female engineering role models ... Space Center. The mission was the first international collaboration in space — having a crewed Apollo capsule dock with a crewed Russian ...

ST. CLOUD — Downtown St. Cloud could be the home of the Inspiration Mock Orbiter, a NASA-built model of the space shuttle. Currently owned by local inventor and founder of LVX System ...

none were as curious—and blatant—as the Soviet Space Shuttle. The American Space Shuttle program was designed to create a spacecraft that could act as an inexpensive, reusable connector ...

On the American front, the research performed in this field would lead in the 1970s to the creation of the Space Shuttle. On the Russian one, it amounted to absolutely nothing. The spacecraft was ...