The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

"They thought that maybe the [U.S.] space shuttle was going to be doing shallow ... It's only speculation, but if true, it would mean that the old Soviet Union ultimately succeeded in getting ...

including heat-resistant alloys and ceramic tiles—technologies that foreshadowed those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on ...