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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
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 ...
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Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle
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.
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The Buran - Soviet Space Shuttle Copy
The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. Donald Trump announces pause on all US military aid to Ukraine with major message to ...
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Head of Soviet space shuttle program dies aged 89
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 ...
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SpaceX has proven it can fly astronauts. Here's how Elon Musk's company became the first to help NASA resurrect US spaceflight.
Since NASA ended its space-shuttle program in 2011, the agency has relied exclusively on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from orbit in Soyuz spacecraft. But those seats have gotten ...