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 arrival.

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on. Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

What happens when space programs are left to die? In the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, the Buran reusable spacecraft program was canceled, leaving the launchpads and equipment to decay. The ...

A ROTTING pair of Russian space rockets have been left gathering dust for 30 years inside an eerie abandoned warehouse. The giant £189million shuttles failed to ever make it into orbit leaving the ...

For some reason, my social media feeds lately have been filled with images of "Russia's secret space shuttles" that have fallen into ruin. This is a little puzzling, since those shuttles haven't been ...

Here's What You Need to Know: Economic problems in the Soviet Union doomed the Buran program to failure. The intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed the two countries to ...

What it’s about: Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of… actually, now that we mention it, that should be voyage. Singular. After losing the race to the moon, the Soviet space program ...

In many ways, Buran was more advanced than the Shuttle... Automation level was staggering (Shuttles would gain auto-landing capabilities many years later), it landed in weather conditions that ...