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State Papers: Nasa wanted to use Shannon Airport as a landing site for the space shuttle

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...
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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 ...
Scientific American

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means The proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to a ...
Military Aviation History on MSN

The red blizzard – inside the Soviet Union’s forgotten Buran space shuttle

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost ...
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130 million debris objects in orbit, one just cracked a spacecraft window

Microscopic space debris cracked the window of China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in November 2025, delaying the crew’s return ...