The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program.

The US Space Shuttle program is ... itself at the right moment right over Moscow, possibly with dangerous cargo.’ The design of NASA’s space shuttle, given what we know about the 133 ...

TASS/. Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state corporation said late ...

but also because it was manufactured for the special purpose of being the transport carrier of the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle, and thus only one airframe was completed. Its ...

He recalled that the Energia rocket and Buran space shuttle were the largest-ever program in the history of national space rocket industry. By 1985 its financing had reached 1.3 billion rubles.