Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle

This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency's plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA's Shuttle fleet.

Author: Bart Hendrickx, Bert Vis
Publisher: Praxis Publications Inc
Published: 10/04/2007
Pages: 526
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.70w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780387698489

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1180