Kliper

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

4

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Kliper (Клипер, English: Clipper) was an early-2000s proposed partially-reusable (excluding orbital section and thermal protection shield) crewed spacecraft concept by RSC Energia.

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