Hidden within the vast Baikonur Cosmodrome, these relics of Cold War innovation stand as a haunting reminder of a bygone era ... the Soviet response to NASA's Space Shuttle, and the groundbreaking ...

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.

MOSCOW, October 26. /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 ...