Inside the USSR’s secret space shuttle program Buran
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Inside the USSR’s secret space shuttle program Buran
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it looked like the Space Shuttle but hid radical differences. In this interview with aviation historian Michael Nelmes, we uncover the truth behind the USSR’s most ambitious space project.
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