> He later became the 1st cosmonaut to fly on the US Space Shuttle: Part of the reason NASA selected him is because he worked on the Soviet Buran project for a

> He later became the 1st cosmonaut to fly on the US Space Shuttle: Part of the reason NASA selected him is because he worked on the Soviet Buran project for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)