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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Soviet Space Shuttle Buran "Buran" was the Soviet equivalent of the US Space Shuttle. Only one Buran orbiter was ever made. It completed a single unmanned orbital flight in 1988. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the program was cancelled, and the former Soviet Space Shuttle stood derelict in a hangar at the Bakinour Cosmodrome (Kazahkstan). That shuttle was destroyed when its hangar collapsed in 2002. You can also see this video on my YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/wa