At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union built its own answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle. Massive, ambitious, and technologically advanced, Buran was designed to prove that the space race was far ...

In 1988, the world suddenly realized the Soviet Union had its own space shuttle - and it wasn’t a rumor. Buran had been built in secret for years, costing billions, and it launched in a way that ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...