Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program. Dozens more USAID staff ousted as Trump administration ...

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

Russia will stop sending cosmomauts to the ... to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images ...

The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote... Here’s What You ...

While the U.S. and Russia began the space race as competitors, they evolved into collaborators. A key moment in this partnership came on June 27, 1995, when space shuttle Atlantis docked with the ...

Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...