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 ...

The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. ‘We’re Just a Little Hurt’—Canadian, Minnesota Border Towns Wonder if They ...

WASHINGTON--When three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, some saw a message in them wearing the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

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 ...