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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
One Hit Wonder The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed.
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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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White Elephant
A structural test article of the Soviet Buran space shuttle, on display in Moscow in 2017. WHEN VICTOR ZABOLOTSKY, A TEST PILOT WHO ONCE TRAINED TO FLY the Soviet Buran space shuttle, thinks back ...
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Head of Soviet space shuttle program dies aged 89
MOSCOW, October 26. /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 ...