Photo credit: © TASS On January 19, a new exhibition center named Buran officially opened at the Verkhnyaya Pyshma Museum Complex, near Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Ural region. The centerpiece of […]
Read more
Tag: Buran
Verkhnyaya Pyshma Museum to Restore the Soviet Buran Space Shuttle
Image: Item 2.01 “Baikal” at the “VoenFilm-Medyn” complex, summer 2022 / Photo: © @igor113 / livejournal.com To conduct a large-scale restoration of the Buran reusable orbital vehicle (item 2.01 “Baikal”), […]
Read more
13 May 1989: first flight of An-225 Mriya with Buran
Photo by Creative Commons license 35 years ago, the first flight of the unique transport aircraft, created by Antonov Design Bureau, with the Soviet reusable spacecraft on the external mount, […]
Read more
Energia-Buran – the last triumph of Soviet cosmonautics
Photo by Creative Commons license The Buran spacecraft left an indelible mark in people’s hearts and a feeling of bitterness, disappointment and dissatisfaction that the Energia-Buran programme was stopped at […]
Read more