In June of 1995, the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian Space Station, Mir. It was an historic first for both the Russian and American space programmes. From an engineering and design point of view, it was also surprisingly easy…
Questions were asked about how these two competing space programmes could have such compatible technology…
Suspicion fell on the now abandoned Russian space shuttle, called the Buran. Even to untrained eyes, the two space shuttles were remarkedly similar…
The Buran had been designed to dock with the Mir space station, but with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the project was shutdown.
As authorities began to take a closer look at the Soviet shuttle, and its suspiciously American docking system – they discovered a KGB plot to steal US technology, a murderous love-triangle and a double-agent selling secrets
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