Category : Buran
November 15, 2018

On November 15, 1988, 30 years ago, the Soviet spaceship "Buran" made its triumphal unmanned flight. This event was the crown of the most complex and most expensive program of the Soviet space program, which began in the mid-1970s as a response to the development of American space shuttles. The whole country worked on the "Energia-Buran" system - during its creation, the efforts of hundreds of design bureaus, factories, research organizations, military builders, and operational parts of space forces were combined. Prior to "Buran", the Soviet space history knew nothing of the kind

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November 15, 2013

Soviet space shuttle Buran was ahead of his time and in most criteria left American “space-shuttle” system, behind, – as…

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