Janne M. KorhonenOn 15 Nov 1988, 37 years ago, the #Soviet #space #shuttle #Buran made its first and only flight.
In 2013, I found an interesting piece of #history of the #ColdWar and wrote why Buran looked like a copy of the US Shuttle. (TL;DR: arms race/paranoia.) #HistSciTech
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Space system “Shuttle,” part o...
Space system “Shuttle,” part o...
Space system “Shuttle,” part of USA’s nuclear attack arsenal?
The story of a white elephant colloquially known as the Space Shuttle is familiar to most students of the history of technology. The shuttle was originally touted as a cheap way to access space: …