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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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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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Kalashnikov gunmaker assigns Buran space shuttle producer to state firm
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 ...
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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’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...
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Russian company plans to send tourists into space without space suits
which is developing private space tourism in Russia, is planning to send its tourists into short sub-orbital space flights without space suits, company’s Director General Pavel Pushkin said on ...
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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 ...