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 ...

The two different program files are available only in the 64-bit operating system. The 32-bit operating system will have only a single program file folder. The main difference is that the program file ...

In 2018 I published here a video of an infiltration of urban explorers in Baikonur, the huge Russian cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Built in 1955, during Soviet times, after the disappearance of the USSR ...

For years I have published in this blog many blogs of explorations, but the one that I bring today is one of the most impressive. It was published last year and is set in Kazakhstan. Inside this ...

Embark on a journey to the heart of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle program lie in silent testimony to a once-vibrant era of space ...

Union Maritime’s 18,500-dwt tanker Buran departed on its maiden voyage from China to Singapore, becoming the first vessel in the company’s 34-vessel wind-assisted propulsion fleet, according to Ascenz ...

Union Maritime’s Buran sets sail as the first in a 34-vessel wind-assisted fleet equipped with Norsepower Rotor Sails The first of Union Maritime’s planned wind-assisted vessels, 18,500-dwt tanker ...

Union Maritime has taken delivery of Buran, the first of 34 planned wind assisted vessels on order for the UK-based bulk carrier and tanker owner. The owner said it expects to save around 940 tonnes ...

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 arrival.

In 1976, the Soviet authorities began creating a reusable space system called Energia-Buran. It included the heavy-class launch vehicle Energia and the orbital ship Buran. The latter began to be ...

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our ...

In Kazakhstan, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained two citizens from France and Germany who entered the Baikonur cosmodrome and tried to photograph the Energia rocket. This was ...