A SOVIET space rocket has been left to rot near a desert in an abandoned ship graveyard. The rusting 2,650-ton Energia M rocket was once envisioned as the USSR’s lethal weapon that could take… ...

Soviet Union’s Buran Space Shuttle Is on the Dustheap of History. ... Energia’s first flight, on March 15, 1987 was to carry the Polyus-Skif experimental laser weapon into space.

Ralph Mirebs, last seen uploading pictures of the Soviet space shuttle, found this one standing in Baikonur. Intended as a replacement for the Proton rocket, Energia M was instead discontinued ...

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya wasn’t just an aircraft,it was a symbol of unmatched engineering ambition. Built in the 1980s by the Soviet Union to transport the massive Buran space shuttle and parts of the ...

MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. November 15, 2018 marks 30 years since the Buran reusable spacecraft performed its first and sole flight. The Buran was part of the Energia-Buran reusable space system.

The Soviets worked on the Energia Vulkan for about a decade, but the project was eventually scrapped in the 1990s when the Soviet Union fell, and funding abruptly disappeared. That means the ...

The Soviet leadership, perhaps buoyed by American confidence in the project, authorized the Buran (“Snowstorm”) program in February 1976. ... Energia, that would carry it into space.

After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, occupying Soviet forces equipped the base with armored hangars and other war-ready infrastructure. A military band plays outside Milovice Air ...