The Soviet Union secretly developed the Buran reusable space shuttle program during the Cold War to compete with NASA's Space Shuttle, successfully flying it into space only once before the program was abandoned following the collapse of the USSR, leaving several prototypes to decay in desert hangars as haunting reminders of the space race.
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The Soviet Space Shuttle Left to Rot in the DesertAdded:
There's a real space shuttle abandoned [music] and rotting in the desert.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built the Buran shuttle to compete with NASA.
The spacecraft successfully flew into space once.
>> [music] >> But after the collapse of the USSR, the entire program was abandoned.
Today, these massive Soviet space shuttles still sit forgotten inside collapsing [music] desert hangars.
It's one of the most haunting reminders of the Cold War space [music] race ever left behind.
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