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 ...

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...

The group of six women that includes CBS host Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry are set to make history in a Blue Origin launch next week.

"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 ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive ... 1,206 enterprises from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed in 1993.

While Mr. Krikalev was up there, the Soviet Union disbanded ... While they were in space, a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts ...