# List of Buran missions

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, which were known as "Buran-class orbiters".

## Test flights

The aerodynamic testbed OK-GLI was constructed in 1984 to test the in-flight properties of the Buran design. Unlike the American prototype Enterprise, OK-GLI had four AL-31 turbofan engines fitted, meaning it was able to fly under its own power.
The list does not include taxi tests without takeoffs. All of these missions were landed at the Gromov Flight Research Institute test base.
| No | Flight date | Crew | Duration | Notes |
| 1 | 10 November 1985 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 12m | First flight of OK-GLI |
| 2 | 3 January 1986 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 36m | |
| 3 | 27 May 1986 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 23m | |
| 4 | 11 June 1986 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 22m | Semi-automatic gliding |
| 5 | 20 June 1986 | Anatoli Levchenko Alexandr Shchukin | 00d 00h 25m | Semi-automatic gliding |
| 6 | 28 June 1986 | Anatoli Levchenko Alexandr Shchukin | 00d 00h 23m | Semi-automatic gliding |
| 7 | 10 December 1986 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 24m | Automated control turned off before touchdown Considered the first automatic landing |
| 8 | 23 December 1986 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 17m | Automatic landing |
| 9 | 29 December 1986 | Anatoli Levchenko Alexandr Shchukin | 00d 00h 17m | Automatic landing |
| 10 | 16 February 1987 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 28m | Officially the first fully automatic landing |
| 11 | 21 May 1987 | Anatoli Levchenko Alexander Shchukin | 00d 00h 20m | Automatic landing |
| 12 | 25 June 1987 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 19m | Automatic landing |
| 13 | 5 October 1987 | Alexander Shchukin Igor Volk | 00d 00h 21m | Automatic landing |
| 14 | 15 October 1987 | Ivan Bachurin Alexei Borodai | 00d 00h 19m | Automatic landing |
| 15 | 16 January 1988 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 22m | Automatic landing |
| 16 | 24 January 1988 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 11m | Automatic landing |
| 17 | 23 February 1988 | Ivan Bachurin Alexei Borodai | 00d 00h 22m | First flight of extended test program. Automatic landing |
| 18 | 4 March 1988 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 32m | Automatic landing |
| 19 | 12 March 1988 | Ivan Bachurin Alexei Borodai | 00d 00h 20m | Automatic landing |
| 20 | 23 March 1988 | Ivan Bachurin Alexei Borodai | 00d 00h 43m | Automatic landing |
| 21 | 28 March 1988 | Ivan Bachurin Alexei Borodai | 00d 00h 19m | Automatic landing |
| 22 | 2 April 1988 | Rimantas Stankevičius Alexander Schukin | 00d 00h 20m | Automatic landing |
| 23 | 8 April 1988 | Alexander Schukin Rimantas Stankevičius | 00d 00h 21m | Automatic landing |
| 24 | 15 April 1988 | Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk | 00d 00h 19m | Automatic landing Last flight of OK-GLI |

## Launches and orbital flights

The first operational orbiter, Buran flew one test mission, designated 1K1, on November 15, 1988 at 6:00:00 Moscow time. The spacecraft was launched uncrewed from and landed at Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh S.S.R. and flew two orbits, traveling 83,707 km (52,013 mi) in 3 hours, 25 minutes (0.14 flight days). Buran never flew again; the program was cancelled shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2002, the Buran orbiter was destroyed by the collapse of the hangar in which it was stored.
| No | Launch date | Mission | Shuttle | Crew | Duration | Landing site | Notes | Sources |
| 1 | 15 November 1988 03:00:01 UTC 06:00:01 MSK | 1K1 | Buran | 0 | 00d 3h 25m | Baikonur | Only flight of Buran Only uncrewed flight of Space Shuttle type vehicle | [11][12][13] [14] |

## Cancelled missions
### Planned in 1989

| No | Launch date | Mission | Shuttle | Crew | Duration | Landing site | Mission details |
| 2 | Q4 1991 | 2K1 | 1.02 | None | 2d | Baikonur | First flight of 1.02 |
| 3 | Q1-Q2 1992 | 2K2 | 1.02 | None | 7-8d | Baikonur | Mir docking |
| 4 | 1993 | 1K2 | Buran | None | 15-20d | Baikonur | |
| 5 | 1994 | 3K1 | 2.01 | Igor Volk Aleksandr Ivanchenkov | 1d | Baikonur | First crewed flight First flight of 2.01 |
| 6 | 1994 | | | two cosmonauts | | Baikonur | Second crewed flight |
| 7 | 1994 | | | two cosmonauts | | Baikonur | Third crewed flight |
| 8 | 1995 | | | two cosmonauts | | Baikonur | Fourth crewed flight |
| 9 | 1995 | | | two cosmonauts | | Baikonur | Fifth crewed flight Last planned orbital test flight |

### Planned in 1991

Due to shortening of the program and delays in second flight preparations, mission plan for second orbiter included almost all significant test tasks.
* automatic docking with Mir's Kristall module
* crew transfer from Mir to the shuttle, with testing of some of its systems in the course of twenty-four hours, including the remote manipulator
* undocking and autonomous flight in orbit
* docking of the crewed Soyuz-TM №101 with the shuttle
* crew transfer from the Soyuz to the shuttle and onboard work over the course of twenty-four hours
* automatic undocking and landing
| No | Launch Date | Mission | Shuttle | Crew | Duration | Landing Site | Mission details |
| 2 | 1992 | 2K1 | 1.02 | None | 7-8d | | Mir docking |