The Soviet Buran space shuttle, developed in the 1970s as a rival to NASA's Space Shuttle, was a reusable orbiter capable of unmanned flight and launched by the powerful Energia rocket. Completing its only automated orbital mission in 1988 with superior payload...
Every Apollo mission marked NASA's lunar triumphs and trials, from the fatal 1967 Apollo 1 fire and uncrewed Saturn V tests (Apollo 4-6) to crewed orbits (Apollo 7-10), historic Moon landings like Apollo 11's first steps, Apollo 13's aborted crisis, and Apollo 17's...
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This article by Michael Nelmes is from the Spring 2023 issue of Wings Magazine - Subscribe to Wings https://wingsmagazine.org/