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 ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle ... is the only flight model preserved ...

The space shuttle performed a crewless flight that lasted 205 minutes. The Buran was the first spacecraft in history to undertake a successful automatic landing. Russian troops liberate four ...