The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was shelved.

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

An abandoned space shuttle site from the Soviet-era draws many urban explorers, even though it’s off limits to the public. Chris Luckhardt of Toronto, Canada, is one person who risked getting ...

Venera 8, a Soviet probe for a set of Venus missions, was Cosmos 482's sibling spacecraft. NASA The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are ...

The Soviet Union launched over a dozen probes to Venus—most successfully. But one never made it past Earth’s orbit and has, in fact, stayed there since 1972. Now, over 50 years later, the one ...

May 2 (UPI) -- A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission ...