The Soviet Space Shuttle Left to Rot in the Desert

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]There's a real space shuttle abandoned [music] and rotting in the desert.

[00:00:03]During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built the Buran shuttle to compete with NASA.

[00:00:10]The spacecraft successfully flew into space once.

[00:00:14]>> [music] >> But after the collapse of the USSR, the entire program was abandoned.

[00:00:20]Today, these massive Soviet space shuttles still sit forgotten inside collapsing [music] desert hangars.

[00:00:27]It's one of the most haunting reminders of the Cold War space [music] race ever left behind.