Russian Military Satellite launched - Kliper update

• Russian Military Satellite launched - Kliper update by Chris Bergin on 03 May, 2006 19:09
• http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4480
• #1 by Flightstar on 03 May, 2006 19:23
• "Interestingly, while the Kliper will land like the NASA Space Shuttle, in cases of emergency, the craft will have the ability to retract its wings, deploy parachutes and land like a Soyuz."
  
  Now that's pretty clever!
• #2 by publiusr on 04 May, 2006 16:14
• That is an awful lot of capability crammed into a small airframe.
• #3 by vt_hokie on 04 May, 2006 22:19
• I hope that Kliper actually flies!  I'd like nothing more than to see a more advanced and capable spacecraft make the CEV look bad!  
• #4 by James Lowe1 on 05 May, 2006 00:50
• I wonder how the retracting wings would work? Like the SpaceShipOne, or actually retracting into the body of the ship?
• #5 by simonbp on 05 May, 2006 00:56
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  vt_hokie - 4/5/2006  5:19 PM
  
  I hope that Kliper actually flies!  I'd like nothing more than to see a more advanced and capable spacecraft make the CEV look bad!  

  
  They are both "advanced and capable spacecraft", the CEV just doesn't pretend to be an aircraft too...
  
  Simon