The Race To Develop A Robotic Military Space Shuttle

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Russia Joins The US And China In Spaceplane Dream -- The First Post

General’s hint raises stakes in the race to develop a robotic military space shuttle.
The prospect of a return to the heady days of the space race has been raised after a Russian space chief hinted that his researchers are working on their own version of America's Boeing X-37B - also known as the top secret space warplane.

General-Lieutenant Oleg Ostapenko, Russia's Space Troops Commander, told RIA Novosti: "Something has been done along these lines, but as to whether we will use it, only time will tell."

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More News On The Race To Build Robotic Space Planes

Russians at work on military spaceplane -- Flight Global
Can Russia rival the X-37B space plane with its own robotic spacecraft? -- Christian Science Monitor
Russia Working on Mysterious Space Plane of Its Own -- The Danger Room
Russia is Building its Own Military Space Plane to Match the Mysterious X-37B -- Popular Science
Russia Building Its Own Super-Mysterious Robotic Space Plane -- Gizmodo
Russia has 'secret space warplane' to match US X-37B -- The Register

China ratchets up military tension ahead of Hu visit -- The First Post
While the world watched the J-20 test, China was 'deleting posts about a space fighter' -- News.com.au

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