Built during the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Buran shuttle was designed to rival NASA’s Space Transportation System and surpass it in one critical way: it could fly and land entirely on its own ...
While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital spacecraft using publicly available American technical data and Cold War ...
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...