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 ...

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 ...

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 ...