Today, three versions of the Buran survive. One, a full-scale test model, is on display at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum. The other two—including the shuttle that was scheduled to fly the second ...

In the 1980s, a little-known chapter in the space race took place when the Soviet Union attempted to build their own version of Nasa’s Space Shuttle. But despite a successful unmanned orbital test ...

Deep in the Kazakh desert stand the remains of the Soviet Union’s boldest dream. The abandoned Buran shuttles, once rivals to NASA’s Space Shuttle, now rest in silence beneath a decaying hangar.

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. A British man and a Belarusian woman have been detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Site 112, the Buran facility, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on. Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

A team of YouTubers snuck into a restricted hangar in Kazakhstan to explore and film space shuttles from the Soviet-era Buran space program. The YouTubers run the channel “Exploring the Unbeaten Path.

Eerie photographs taken inside Russia's desert cosmodrome show how USSR-era space craft have been left to rust in an abandoned hangar in Kazakhstan. The Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is rented by Russia, ...

The AN-225 Antonov "Mriya" ("Dream") will fly no more. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed ...

MOSCOW — Eight men were feared dead after plunging about 260 feet to earth when a roof at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan collapsed Sunday. The men were repairing the roof of the Russian space ...

It is as yet unclear if the collapse of the top section of building 112 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome was due to a freak accident or was the result of poor maintenance. Whatever the cause, the collapse ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A full-size mockup of a Russian space shuttle is leaving Moscow for an exhibition center opening ...

Tensions are continuing to escalate between a Kazakh businessman and Russian space officials over the fate of the second Buran-class orbiter, named Burya. The businessman, Dauren Musa, claims ...