List of Buran missions

Main articles: Buran programme and Buran (spacecraft)
Buran spacecraft at an airshow in 1989

The Buran programme was an attempt by the Soviet Union to construct an orbital spaceplane to perform similar functions to the Space Shuttle. Similar to the Space Shuttle programme, an aerodynamic prototype and a number of operational spacecraft were planned for the Buran programme,[1] which were known as "Buran-class orbiters".

  1. ^ "Buran Orbiter". Molniya Research & Industrial Corporation. Retrieved 3 October 2014.