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The Soviet space shuttle built from NASA secrets

While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital ...
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Buran Spaceplane Docking with the Mir-2 Space Station Is Like Seeing Soviet Space Ghosts

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 ...
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The Stolen Starship: Why Russia's Buran Space Shuttle Was Secretly Superior to NASA's

Unbeknownst to the world, as America launched its first Space Transportation system in 1981, Russia was in the middle of building its own space shuttle, the Buran, based on stolen blueprints and ...
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Shuttle Tile, Buran

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a white ceramic tile made for ...