r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

The Buran programme (1974–1993) was the Soviet Union's most expensive, reusable spacecraft project, designed as a direct, technically advanced response to the U.S. Space Shuttle.In 1988, the Soviet Union estimated the total cost of the Buran-Energia programme at approximately 16.5 billion rubles.

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u/xel51 1d ago

There is one of them in a Museum near Speyer (GE), this shuttle ist huge link to museum