Articles tagged: Buran programme

• 29 March 2021 Russia to develop new uncrewed spaceplane

  ...Olga Sokolova, Director General of the NPO Molniya. The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as ...a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was downsized and eventually cancelled in the...

  • "mini-Buran"
  • Buran programme
  • Space Shuttle
  • X-37B