The Soviet program had the benefit of American shuttle blueprints obtained by the KGB. At its peak, more than 150,0000 engineers, scientists and others worked on the Buran project.

The Soviet Union attempted to build its own reusable space shuttle system with Buran (the shuttle) and Energia (the launch vehicle) during the 1980s. Buran only carried out one flight, while ...

Research that digs back over the decades is providing an illuminating look at the former Soviet Union’s failed bid to send cosmonauts to the moon. IE 11 is not supported.

A SOVIET space rocket has been left to rot near a desert in an abandoned ship graveyard. The rusting 2,650-ton Energia M rocket was once envisioned as the USSR’s lethal weapon that could take… ...

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Space Shuttle project was approved in 1969, boosted by NASA’s success with the Apollo moon landing. That the Soviet space program didn’t immediately embark ...

While the Soviet Union was crumbling around them, Energia’s engineers continued to get funding because the military saw Buran as vital to any missile defence system similar to America’s Star Wars.

In what may have been the first instance of online espionage, the Soviets built their own space shuttle based on thousands of documents acquired from U.S. sources. First of two parts, by NBC News ...

Cold War rivalry—and fear of space weaponry—made the Soviet Union feel it had to match U.S. accomplishments in kind, ... Instead, the Energia rocket shared the same fate as Buran itself, ...

President Ronald Reagan, speaking on this day in 1983 at the convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, branded the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” further ...

New details surface about the former Soviet Union's attempts to send cosmonauts to the moon on huge N-1 rockets. The Soviet N-1 moon rocket was built to launch two cosmonauts to the moon during ...