What happens when space programs are left to die? In the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, the Buran reusable spacecraft program was canceled, leaving the launchpads and equipment to decay. The ...

Upon the development of the American Space Shuttle program, The Soviet Union also embarked on their own version. This little known space program, which cost billion of dollars, was known as Buran and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Economic problems in the Soviet Union doomed the Buran program to failure. The intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed... Key Point: The ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

We ventured deep into the Kazakhstan desert to uncover one of the Soviet Union’s most secretive and ambitious Cold War projects: the abandoned Buran space shuttles. Hidden inside massive hangars at ...