Spacecraft with a crew escape system

A spacecraft being a single-stage aerospace vehicle comprising:

• a fuselage provided with a crew compartment;
• a payload compartment;
• a center conical body located in a nose portion of the fuselage;
• the center conical body is mounted movable along a vehicle fore-and-aft axis and has a power actuator;
• a landing gear, incorporating a multiwheel bogey and a nose wheel;
• a variable-sweep wing;
• a power plant;
• an orbital maneuvering system provided with actuators;
• a crew escape system provided with an escape module (24);
• the escape module of the crew escape system is located on an end face of a tail portion of the vehicle fuselage;
• wherein the power plant comprises two launching rocket engines and two boost rocket engines mounted pairwise on the outer wing panels symmetrically with respect to the vehicle fore-and-aft axis, two solid-propellant additional boosting rocket engines, and two solid-propellant emergency deceleration rocket engines arranged pairwise in a common casing with their nozzles facing opposite sides and located at the tips of the outer panels of the wing, six liquid-propellant transverse-thrust rocket engines located in the vehicle fuselage on a rotatable ring and spaced equidistantly along the ring periphery, the center of the ring coinciding with the center of mass of the vehicle;
• production doors are provided in the upper portion of the vehicle fuselage for installing the transverse-thrust engines, and an opening is made in the lower portion of the fuselage for the exhaust gases of the transverse-thrust engines to escape, said opening being provided with extensible sliding shutters and flame deflectors;
• said vehicle a tail portion comprising two spaced-apart fin struts, and a horizontal tail consisting of two parallel tailplanes, being a top tailplane and a bottom tailplane, the bottom tailplane is a variable-sweep and is held to the vehicle fuselage, while the top tailplane is displaced with respect to the bottom tailplane towards the tail portion of the fuselage and is held to the ends of the fin struts;
• said crew compartment is interposed between the fin struts under the top tailplane;
• said actuators of the orbital maneuvering system are low-thrust rocket engines located at the tips of the tailplanes, and power assisted gyro stabilizers mounted in the fin struts and at the tips of the outer panels of the wing.