MAKS-2005 features mock-up of the Clipper spacecraft

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MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - A full-scale mock-up of the Clipper spacecraft will be featured at the MAKS-2005 International Air Show, a Russian Space Agency press release said.

The Russian Energia space corporation is making the model.

"The visitors will not only be able to see the mock-up, but also get inside it. A special monitor installed in the cabin will simulate a space flight," the press release said.

Anyone will be able to find information about the requirements necessary to become a cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center's booth," the agency said.

In addition, the visitors will be able to get "a souvenir from space" and watch videos about the Federal Space Agency, the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and the new Soyuz international project at the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.

The MAKS-2005 Air Show will take place at the town of Zhukovsky near Moscow from August 16 until August 21.

Such prominent representatives of the Russian space industry as the Lavochkin Research and Production Association, the Progress design bureau, the Energomash Research and Production Association and the Khrunichev Space Science and Production Center, and others will participate in the show.

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