Mustard on MSN

The USSR built a giant shuttle to rival NASA’s 2,000+ ton launch system - “Pure aerospace madness”

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed the Buran space shuttle, a massive 105 ton spacecraft designed to rival and ...
Dark Footage Official on MSN

Why the Soviet Buran shuttle shocked NASA with one major advantage

During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched one of the most ambitious aerospace programs in its history: the ...
Gizmodo

Abandoned remains from the Soviet Shuttle Program

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 ...
autoevolution

Buran Spaceplane Docking with the Mir-2 Space Station Is Like Seeing Soviet Space Ghosts

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...
insider.si.edu

Shuttle Tile, Buran

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a white ceramic tile made for ...
Time

The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped

A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The ...