February 14, 2025 \| Last updated: February 14, 2025. The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response ...

It was built by Russia under a contract from NASA. In case of a launch failure ... Module was launched to the ISS in 2010 onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The module was intended to be a ...

The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence ... destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and national security writer with over 1,000 total pieces on issues ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried ... and two solid rocket motors mounted to the side of the external tank. The Soviet shuttle’s launch system – ‘Energia’ – looked similar ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Russia will stop sending cosmomauts to the International Space Station ...

The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

Russia’s State Space ... taken steps to reduce the cost of launch services for us by cutting some expenses on the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure.

On this date, Jan. 20, 1997, space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir space station. Atlantis, on its fifth trip to Mir, made two flights around the station after undocking and ...

While the U.S. and Russia began the space race as competitors ... that a piece of foam insulation had struck the shuttle’s left wing during launch, causing critical damage that ultimately ...

TASS/. Russian Space Systems Company (part of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos) has modernized the system of liftoff measurements for the launch compound of the Proton-M heavy carrier rocket ...

when the last space shuttle made its final voyage into orbit. For the nine years in between, NASA relied on Russian Soyuz rockets to ferry its astronauts to and from the space station. But that ...