The Soviet-Union’s Buran programme was more than just a clone of NASA’s shuttle: it flew once, uncrewed, landed automatically, and hung from an Energia rocket instead of carrying its main engines ...

Upon the development of the American Space Shuttle program, The Soviet Union also embarked on their own version. This little known space program, which cost billion of dollars, was known as Buran and ...

Key Point: The Buran is now little more than a footnote in space history. The intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed the two countries to compete,... Key Point: The ...

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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 ...