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 ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

An example of this that I write about in Cosmonaut is the story of the Soviet Buran space shuttle. Buran was launched once in 1988, in automated mode (without a crew).

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 ...