The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

For many decades, Russia was a world leader in space exploration. However, by the second decade of the 21st century, little ...

Russia will stop sending cosmomauts to the ... to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images ...

TASS/. Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state corporation said late ...

The US shuttle Atlantis delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts to the Russian Mir space station, signalling a new era of space co-operation between the two former Cold War rivals. The crew of ...

Related: Roscosmos: Russia's space agency Monday's Soyuz launch included a pair of Ionosfera-M satellites, which will form a system for monitoring Earth's ionosphere, Reuters reported. Each has a ...

Something the world never got to know: the MTKVA. Unlike the space shuttle, which came as a central body with wings, the Russian idea was a lifting body design with no such things, that was deemed ...