Russia Now Wants To Have It's Own Space Plane

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Russia Working on Mysterious Space Plane of Its Own -- The Danger Room

It’s official: the space race is on again.

54 years after the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik I satellite, sparking the original space race — and 20 years after the USSR’s collapse left America as the sole space superpower — the Russians are back on track. The Kremlin’s military space chief Oleg Ostapenko just announced that Russia is developing a small, maneuverable, reusable space plane to match the U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.

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Update #1: Can Russia rival the X-37B space plane with its own robotic spacecraft? -- Christian Science Monitor
Update #2: Russia is Building its Own Military Space Plane to Match the Mysterious X-37B -- Popular Science

My Comment: And not far behind the Russians .... are the Chinese