Buran ("Snowstorm"
or "Blizzard") was the
first spaceplane to be
produced as part of the
Soviet/Russian Buran
programme. Besides
describing the first
operational Soviet/Russian
shuttle orbiter, "Buran" was
also the designation for the
whole Soviet/Russian
spaceplane project and its
orbiters, which were known
as "Buran-class
spaceplanes".
OK-1K1
completed one unmanned
spaceflight in 1988, and was
destroyed in 2002 when the
hangar it was stored in
collapsed. It remains the
only Soviet
reusable spacecraft to be
launched into space. The Buran-class
orbiters used the
expendable Energia rocket, a
class of super heavy-lift
launch vehicle.
Source:
Wikipedia
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