The Soviet Buran was built to rival NASA's Space Shuttle and became the only space shuttle to complete an orbital mission ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own reusable space shuttle to rival NASA’s program. Known as Buran, it was launched atop the powerful Energia rocket and completed a fully ...

It was the Soviet response to the space shuttle, designed to take the Cold War into space. But after just one flight, it was mothballed. Now, the ruins of what was called the Buran program are left to ...