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Russia’s Abandoned Rival To The Space Shuttle Is A Rusting Reminder Of The Race To Govern Space
Officially called the Buran space plane, the Soviet Union’s idea for a space shuttle looked remarkably similar to NASA’s. It had a slick white body with black heatproof tiles on the underside ...
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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 ...
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Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a product of the cold war ... it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships were iterations on a design, arguably ...
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Russia Space Shuttle
The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote... Here’s What You Need to Know: The Space Shuttle ...
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Head of Soviet space shuttle program dies aged 89
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 corporation said late on Thursday. "On October ...
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Russia's secret space shuttles have been sitting in plain sight for 22 years
space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.