The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote in space history.

Deep in the Kazakh desert stand the remains of the Soviet Union’s boldest dream. The abandoned Buran shuttles, once rivals to ...

Another Buran program craft, OK-GLI, was used in 25 suborbital test flights and now resides in Germany’s Technikmuseum Speyer. But this is what remains of the launchpads used for Buran flights.

The Buran program wasn’t exactly a failure as the one flight that took off in 1988 was successful and proved the viability of the design, reports CNN.

The Buran program was actually a two-part program, to develop the space plane itself—also named Buran —and a new booster, Energia, that would carry it into space.

This week’s entry: Buran programme What it’s about: Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of… actually, now that we mention it, that should be voyage. Singular.

The Buran space shuttle came as the Soviet response to the US program. The Energia Research and Production Association was chosen as the lead developer of the Energia-Buran reusable space system.

The Buran's one flight occurred in November 1988. But shortly after that, the program was suspended. David de Rueda ...

It had not been used since the Buran program was abandoned in 1993 after making one successful unmanned flight in 1988. A Buran ship was in the hangar at the time of the accident, RTR said. Story Tags ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive program in the history of domestic space rocket-making, with the annual financing volume reaching 1.3 ...