Built to rival NASA’s shuttle, the Buran flew just once—unmanned, flawless, and then never again. This is the story behind the USSR’s ambitious clone. Trump greenlights ‘significant ...

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A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station, but when Russian cosmonauts opened the hatch to a cargo spacecraft ...

Something the world never got to know: the MTKVA. Unlike the space shuttle, which came as a central body with wings, the Russian idea was a lifting body design with no such things, that was deemed ...

whose failed docking with a Russian space station ended with the first and only emergency splashdown in a Soyuz spacecraft, has died at the age of 82. Zudov's death on Wednesday (June 12 ...

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 ...

none were as curious—and blatant—as the Soviet Space Shuttle. The American Space Shuttle program was designed to create a spacecraft that could act as an inexpensive, reusable connector ...