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The Red Blizzard | The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle Program
Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program. Dozens more USAID staff ousted as Trump administration ...
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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an ...
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Russian museum to restore surviving orbiter from Buran shuttle programme
Ekaterinburg's aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union ...
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Russia Space Shuttle
Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program ... The Space Shuttle project was approved in 1969, boosted by NASA’s success with the Apollo moon landing. That the Soviet space program ...
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Head of Soviet space shuttle program dies aged 89
MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state ...
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Russia just launched the 2,000th Semyorka rocket—it’s both a triumph and tragedy
Yes, it was completely different on the inside - all the labels were in Russian. Buran was copied from the Shuttle - there's several concrete mentions of that in memoirs. They didn't manage to ...