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The Buran space shuttle was launched at 06:02 a.m. Moscow time. The launch went off without a hitch and all the spacecraft’s systems worked in a normal regime.

The shuttle was capable of carrying military and civilian payloads into space, acting as a laboratory for science experiments, and ferrying crews and visitors to orbiting space stations.

The Buran space shuttle was once the apple of the Soviet space fleet’s eye. Unfortunately, it has now been reduced to floating peacefully down the river Rhine, where it will eventually come to ...

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The Antonov AN-225 "Mriya" transports the Soviet-era Buran space shuttle orbiter piggyback, as the aircraft was originally designed to do. (Image credit: Antonov) Related stories: ...