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The An-225: The World’s Largest Plane Built for Space Dreams
What happens when an aircraft is built to carry the future of Soviet space missions? The Antonov An-225, the world’s largest ...
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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated ...
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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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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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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 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 ...