The Soviet Buran space shuttle program came to a grinding halt when the Iron Cur...  ...urtain fell in the early 90s, and as a new era of Russian freedom began another era came to a close.The Bur...  ...to a close.The Buran came to represent the Soviet *strong class="matched...

This photo gallery at the link shows the aband...  ...ows the abandoned remains of the Soviet Union’s space shuttle program. The Russians were attempting to create a reusable space shuttle that wou...