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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
Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an Energia rocket, and performed an automated, horizontal landing on a runway. The entire mission lasted ...
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5 More Never-Made Russian Spacecraft That Would Have Challenged America in Space
The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
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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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British blogger detained at Baikonur says he was fined and released
Basically I was questioned by Russian police for a few hours for going to see the Buran rocket without the special permission and given a Ј60 administrative fine just like hundreds of foreign ...