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How the USSR built Buran, the Soviet shuttle shaped by espionage, public NASA data, and early online spying

After Apollo 11 shifted the space race, Soviet leaders feared the U.S. Shuttle could become a space bomber and rushed to build a counterpart. This story traces how public documents, covert ...
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Buran Spaceplane Docking with the Mir-2 Space Station Is Like Seeing Soviet Space Ghosts

A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...