At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union built its own answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle. Massive, ambitious, and ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...