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How the Soviet Union tried to build an orbital fighter before the Space Shuttle existed

Deep in the Cold War, the Soviet military launched a classified program to put an armed space plane in orbit, capable of ...
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In November 1988, an unmanned Soviet space shuttle called Buran flew a full orbital mission and landed itself in a blizzard at Baikonur without a single human input, and three ...

On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, circled the Earth twice, and ...