the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated ...

A TOP secret US spaceship has touched down on Earth after spending 434 days in orbit. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed ...

While the design of the Soviet shuttle was taken directly from documents produced in the mid 1970s, it’s not quite right to say the Soviet version was stolen. Buran, and her incomplete sister ...

This reusability is its star feature. X-37B is only the third-ever reusable spacecraft, after the Soviet Buran shuttle and the US Space Shuttle - although the latter never tested this capability.

On his blog, Mirebs asks "Why spend billions on ... space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?" Much of Mireb's photography documents Russia's industrial decline after the ...