Reusable orbital vehicle comprising a crew-evacuation vehicle for forward extraction

A reusable orbital vehicle for a space transport system, comprising a fuselage with a shape splayed in a direction going from a front end of the reusable orbital vehicle to a rear end of said fuselage and within which a housing is defined extending to a front end of the fuselage, and a crew-evacuation vehicle housed in said housing while being oriented so as to be extracted from the housing in a direction oriented from said rear end of the fuselage towards said front end of the reusable orbital vehicle, wherein:

• said fuselage comprises a fairing that surrounds the housing and extends so as to be splayed in the direction of the rear end of this fuselage from the front end of the fuselage, which is truncated so as to define an opening emerging in the housing;
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• the crew-evacuation vehicle comprises a fuselage that has a nose extending through the opening so as to constitute a nose of the reusable orbital vehicle.