But the Americans weren’t the only nation to develop a reusable orbiter. The Soviets made one too, and it was known as the Buran. The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988 ...
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 ...
The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle orbiter was bigger than it needed ... it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ships were ...
Transition to a three-stage pattern of the carrier rocket and rational use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel has allowed for slashing the costs of developing a new super-heavy rocket by 30% MOSCOW, May 17.