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Visitors to the Paris Air Show are being treated to a full-scale mockup of Russia’s proposed Kliper spaceliner. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Russian space officials on Tuesday unveiled a full-scale high-fidelity mockup of the spacecraft they hope will replace the veteran Soyuz space capsule. Descriptions of the Kliper (for "clipper ship") ...

Wind tunnel testing of the six-crew reusable spacecraft Kliper is ongoing despite the decision not to use the vehicle for a European Space Agency (ESA), Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA) manned ...

Soyuz replacement may be developed by new grouping of companies in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine Russia's Kliper six-crew reusable spacecraft could be developed by a consortium of former ...

Whilst everyone awaits the return to flight of the US Shuttle, Europe is considering an eventual participation in a new manned spacecraft. The Kliper project which Russia is proposing to build was one ...

Moscow: India and Russia may negotiate joint development of a new generation space shuttle sometime in January of the coming year, according to reports that quote top Russian space officials. "India ...

Russia, Europe, and Japan may jointly develop a crewed spacecraft called Kliper to ferry as many as six astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The spacecraft could launch as early as ...