November 15th - on this day in 1988, the Soviet spaceplane Buran undertook its only orbital flight. Powered by the enormous Energia rocket, the uncrewed test flight lifted off from Site 110/37 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The orbiter sucessfully completed two orbits and then conducted an automated reentry and landing at Baikonur. This was the first time a spaceplane had peformed an uncrewed flight, including a fully autonomous landing. Sadly, the orbiter wa
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November 15th - on this day in 1988, the Soviet spaceplane Buran undertook its only orbital flight. Powered by the enormous Energia rocket, the uncrewed test flight lifted off
NASASpaceflight.com. . November 15th - on this day in 1988, the Soviet spaceplane Buran undertook its only orbital flight. Powered by the enormous Energia rocket, the uncrewed test flight lifted off from Site 110/37 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The orbiter sucessfully completed two orbits and then ...
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🚀 On This Day — November 15, 1988 The Soviet Union launched the Energia–Buran space shuttle on its first and only orbital flight. Uncrewed but fully autonomous, Buran re-entered and landed itself — a technological flex that matched U.S. Space Shuttle performance and mirrored the ambitions of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Its precision guidance, thermal shielding, and automated flight systems signaled a new frontier: space wasn’t just for exploration anymore — it was becoming a domain of com
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