Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on. Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

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 ...

A ROTTING pair of Russian space rockets have been left gathering dust for 30 years inside an eerie abandoned warehouse. The giant £189million shuttles failed to ever make it into orbit leaving the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: 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 in space history. The intense ...

It's been just over two years since Nasa mothballed the Space Shuttle, but did you know that the Soviet Union built an almost identical shuttle known as Buran? It was primarily for defence purposes in ...

A MAN discovered the remains of a £189million spaceship that had been left to rust in the desert in an eerie warehouse. Urban explorer Greg Abandoned spotted the Soviet air shuttle while adventuring ...

Eerie photographs taken inside Russia's desert cosmodrome show how USSR-era space craft have been left to rust in an abandoned hangar in Kazakhstan. The Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is rented by Russia, ...

MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. November 15, 2018 marks 30 years since the Buran reusable spacecraft performed its first and sole flight. The Buran was part of the Energia-Buran reusable space system. It ...