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Buran was the Soviet Union’s reusable space shuttle orbiter, developed in the 1970s–1980s as part of the Energia–Buran program. Externally similar to the U.S. Space Shuttle, it was designed to carry crew and cargo to low Earth orbit
Mir-2 was a planned successor to the Soviet Mir space station. Originally conceived in the 1980s, it was intended to be a more advanced, modular orbital station with improved life-support, scientific capability, and long-duration habitation. Although Mir-2 itself was never completed as a standalone station, many of its planned modules—especially the Zvezda service module—were later incorporated into the International Space Station (ISS), becoming core elements of the ISS’s Russian Orbital Segment.
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Buran was the Soviet Union’s reusable space shuttle orbiter, developed in the 1970s–1980s as part of the Energia–Buran program. Externally similar to the U.S. Space Shuttle, it was designed to carry crew and cargo to low Earth orbit
Mir-2 was a planned successor to the Soviet Mir space station. Originally conceived in the 1980s, it was intended to be a more advanced, modular orbital station with improved life-support, scientific capability, and long-duration habitation. Although Mir-2 itself was never completed as a standalone station, many of its planned modules—especially the Zvezda service module—were later incorporated into the International Space Station (ISS), becoming core elements of the ISS’s Russian Orbital Segment.
#rocket #spacestation #spaceplane
