Russia Continues the Cold War Era Spacecraft Project

MOSCOW – Do not want to be left far behind with the United States, Russia began to continue the space project that was halted when the Soviet Union dissolved. Currently Russia is redesigning the Buran space shuttle, which successfully orbited in 1988.

Quoting Reuters , a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov conglomerate stated that Russia is developing a reusable spacecraft. The full-size model of the spacecraft was presented in a closed pavilion during a Russian military forum last year. (Read: European Space Agency Opens Opportunities for Disabilities to Become Astronauts)

“The project is now being developed. Targets have been set and the development of a multi-use civilian complex with an orbital plane is under way,” said General Director of the Research Facility, Olga Sokolova as posted on the Molniya website.

Molniya designing facilities the Buran shuttle lengthy 1980s in response to the launch of the US space shuttle program during the Cold War era.

Despite successfully orbiting outer space in 1988, the space shuttle Buran is no longer in use. The Buran project came to a halt when the Soviet Union broke up and funding stopped. (Also read: Detect HERE for Natural Disasters, NOAA Will Fix Weather Forecasts)

The end of the Soviet era was followed by years of accidents and setbacks to the national space program, including the collapse of the hangar roof of the Cosmodrome in which Buran was kept in 2002.

The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space company, Dmitry Rogozin, said in May last year that Moscow was considering developing a pilot-controlled spacecraft.

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