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 ...

What happens when an aircraft is built to carry the future of Soviet space missions? The Antonov An-225, the world’s largest plane, was built to transport the Buran space shuttle and support mid-air ...

Built in the shadows of the Cold War, Buran was the USSR’s ultimate answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle – bigger, more versatile, and able to fly without a crew. In one dramatic flight, it proved the ...