NASA’s iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one ... a second ship that was scheduled to launch into orbit but never made it off the ground. Abandoned - Soviet Space Shuttles (Buran Program) Since ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2002, humans departed for the International Space Station from Kazakhstan on a rocket other than the veteran Soyuz-FG, which was retired last year. Now, the Soyuz 2.1a ...

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 ...

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R ...

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 ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...

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 ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became ... from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed in 1993. The first and only launch of Buran took place on ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Nasa is gearing up for the launch of its SpaceX Crew ... has spent a total of 42 days in space. Her extensive experience with the space shuttle Discovery missions and her work at NASA's Jet ...

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 ...