Military Aviation History. Buran Soviet Space Shuttle, interview with Michael Nelmes. Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: February 28, 2025 ...

It's wild to think that while the Space Shuttle is proudly displayed in museums across America for all to see, this piece of the Soviet space program is hidden away from view.. The Buran program ...

This was how the An-225 Mriya came to be — as the transportation for the Buran shuttle orbiter and parts of the Energia rocket designed to put the Buran into orbit.

Buran itself was destroyed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2002 when the hangar housing it collapsed. Another shuttle is also located at Baikonur, and a third rests at Zhukovsky Air Base near Moscow.

Photo from Antonov. The largest plane ever built held its title for nearly 40 years. Now, 35 years after it took its first flight, we look back on the iconic aircraft, the Antonov AN-225 Mriya. The ...

The one-of-a-kind Antonov An-225 could hold 550,000 pounds of freight. Here's how Ukraine is salvaging the plane, which was wide as a football field.

The Antonov 225 was first flown in 1988. The heavy lift aircraft was originally built to transport Russian space orbiters, specifically the “Russian Space Shuttle” known as the Buran.