[DOC] [TLE] Buran programme - Wikipedia [PAR] The Buran programme, also known as the VKK Space Orbiter programme, was a 
Soviet and ... The Buran orbital vehicle programme was developed in response 
to the U.S. Space Shuttle .... The jets were used to take off from a normal landing 
strip, and once it ... The flight and ground-testing software also required research. [DOC] [TLE] Did The Soviets Build A Better Shuttle Than We Did? - Jalopnik [PAR] Jun 23, 2015 ... But all this attention on the old Buran does give us a good opportunity to ... The 
truth is way more complex, but a simple answer is that's sort of half right. ... 
engines aren't strong enough to lift the orbiter and all that fuel off the ground. ... 
That means that the Soviet space shuttle program really got two very... [DOC] [TLE] Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot | Popular Science [PAR] Jun 16, 2015 ... This is why the program never took off. ... Mated to the booster was the Buran 
space shuttle orbiter, ready for its ... Formally called the Reusable Space System, 
this new spacecraft could, like its American counterpart, fly missions ... Footage of 
NASA's first space shuttle launch in 1981, for comparison's sake. [DOC] [TLE] soviet union | False Steps [PAR] Sep 24, 2016 ... The middle craft was a reasonable knock-off of the NASA Shuttle, but ... with STS-
1 occurring in spring 1981 and Buran's one, crewless flight being in November 
1988). ... that the first plane in his program was not just a testing ground but, ..... 
The difficult thing here is that if a small spaceplane got built there... [DOC] [TLE] militarization of space | False Steps [PAR] Sep 24, 2016 ... The middle craft was a reasonable knock-off of the NASA Shuttle, but ... with STS-
1 occurring in spring 1981 and Buran's one, crewless flight being in November 
1988). ... that the first plane in his program was not just a testing ground but, ..... 
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... 1960 Artist: Valentin Viktorov (1909-1981) After the Soviet Luna-1 rocket .... 
Soviet space shuttle "Buran" which never made a manned flight before it was ... It 
looks like the Russian spies were very active getting the US Space Shuttle's 
specs. [DOC] [TLE] || Space Commerce Corporation's (USSR's space program) rocket ... [PAR] Space , Space Ride, Ussr S Space, Space Fly, Space Flight, 
Soviet Space ... Russians had their own Space Shuttle program in the 80's called 
'Buran'. .... Moon: Space Programs' Dumping Ground (Infographic) by Karl Tate, 
SPACE. .... International Space Rockets Poster (American Museum of Natural 
History). [DOC] [TLE] /by martin.trolle #flickr #CCCP #Energia #rocket #Buran #space ... [PAR] /by martin.trolle #flickr #CCCP version of a space shuttle was called BURAN but 
sadly now .... photo, imagine the thrust as it lifts off and think of where it's going....
amazing. ... Ussr S Space, Russia S Space, Spacecraft Rockets, Real Spacecraft, 
..... Space Shutle, Space Nasa, U S Spacecraft, Aircraft Airship Spacecraft, Final... [DOC] [TLE] Man Noticed This Abandoned Hangar. But What's Inside Caught ... [PAR] The Buran was the Soviet sister of the U.S. NASA space shuttle program. ...... 
A380 airbus and other jets - " GETTING UP OFF THE GROUND WHILE MAKING 
HISTORY " ... to get inside an abandoned hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 
where two ... Russian Soyuz capsule seen in orbit docked to The Space Station. [DOC] [TLE] ------ Part 4 | USSR ... [PAR] Danila Tkachenko - Airplane  amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. .... , 
wing leading, single engine, bomber 1930 s, 7 russian, ussr s .... Abandoned 
shuttle from

Question: Seen here is Buran, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to this U.S. program that got off the ground in 1981
Answer: the shuttle