Built in the shadows of the Cold War, Buran was the USSR’s ultimate answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle – bigger, more versatile, ...

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost identical design but unique capabilities, it became a Cold War symbol of ambition ...

MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Foreign tourists have been detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for attempting to photograph the Buran rocket, law enforcement agencies told TASS. "Law enforcement officers ...