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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 ...
Top secret US spaceship returns to Earth after 434 days on mysterious mission… and is met by hazmat-clad ground crew
A TOP secret US spaceship has touched down on Earth after spending 434 days in orbit. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed ...
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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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The Antonov An-225 Seems To Have Been Destroyed After All
but also because it was manufactured for the special purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed. Its ...
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New super-heavy space rocket to be less costly to make than Energia to recreate
He recalled that the Energia rocket and Buran space shuttle were the largest-ever program in the history of national space rocket industry. By 1985 its financing had reached 1.3 billion rubles.
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Remembering the AN-225 Mriya, 3 years since its destruction
The world’s largest cargo plane, lost in the Ukraine war, remains a symbol of engineering marvel and resilience.
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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 ...