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I'm currently amused by the whole E-8 series and other Lavochkin designs... So perfect, so multifunctional, and still alive as Phobos platform. Btw they have a e-magazine for free on their site.

Still having fun with taking big predator voices (lions, tigers, etc) from youtube an making them sound 4 times faster. What we call "roaring" is actually "barking" and "meowing" 1:1.

A lift. A rocket. A careless miner. What if a downtown is placed higher than the uptown?

A clear definition of a torchship is first required at all, as this is just a colloquial term.

The magnets should not pull the ship. They should pull the soft capture rings until the soft capture latches click, instead of the petals collision like now, which is stil a mechanical collision, even if soft. The magnets should adjust the soft capture rings before their "physical" contact, to let the latches match each other and lock at zero contact speed. Then it's always as usual. Once the soft capture rings are latched, the retractable trusses adjust the vessel axes in one line and pull the ships together. Then, once the electromangetic or mechanical strikers click, the hardware mechanical latches (say, the hooks, like now, or collets like sometimes) lock, and the ships get locked together. *** This allows to avoid using the mechanical petals (they get replaced by the magnetic field). First, this makes the contact much softer, what is important for superheavy ships. Second, currently they have a standard 800 mm clearance between the petals. Though, when the soft capture system is manually unmounted, this gives a 1250 mm wide tunnel (and the CBM standard matches this size by having the squared opening 1270 mm wide). But this requires the manual disassembling. In iLIDS and IDSS Rev A-B they were going to make the petals mechanically foldable, to form a 1160 mm wide passage. But later they returned to more simplistic original APAS design with fixed petals and 800 mm wide passage. So, now they have a 1420 mm wide IDSS adaptor with 800 mm passage (or 1250 mm if manually disassembled). If replace the petals with the electromagnets, they could get a 1420 mm adaptor with 1250 mm passage ready to use. Or a minimalistic 1000 m wide adaptor with 800 mm passage for the light crewed ships. So, the electromagnetic soft capture is a future, but not currently in use. *** Magnets instead of petals.

Banned everyone here incorrectly spelling Brokken.

SE: Due to the lack of a positioning system, you finish inside the wall. SP: (Delegates the SP wish to another user) a donut donate

Best use with the lunar chutes. *** The Soviet view of the lunar flight was more reasonable. A crewless backup lunar ship (LK-1) lands before the flight somewhere around. A Lunokhod without science but with a driver seat and life supplies inside lands where the crewed LK-1 should land. Lunokhod runs around to ensure the LZ is clear. LK-1 lands, using the Lunokhod and its platform as landing beacons. Lunokhod films the LK-1 landing from the lunar surface. If LK-1 can't launch back, but the cosmonaut is still alive, he sits into the Lunokhod and goes to the backup ship.

Hanging the whole ship mass on a single tether in a near-g gravity. A thick tether is needed, and a big drum for it... Of course if it hadn't wrapped like a bolas on the angular acceleration or on the CoM position changing.. P.S. A challenge for irl. Lift a battleship by a single tether.

Why not? The popping candies burst in the mouth. Now we know what's inside.

So, it should return every time back, can't get far from the rover, and perform a precise "landing" every time, risking to damage the rover extended parts. Instead of just having a sticked film. A rather... alternative design.

A torchboat.

The moving part of the actual APAS-derived docking port is a metal pipe ring 1.2 m in diameter, ~5 cm wide, ~8 cm high, with three hollow petals, just several tens kilograms heavy. It's attached to three pairs of trusses with fine rotation joints. So, there is no need in powerful electromagnets to get two rings into contact from less than a meter distance. Any of their electromotors contains comparable magnets.

There are 50 differences between the 50 shades of orange. If there are lemonade and orangeade, is there a bananade?

Granted. I wish anybody else noticed that it's the 700th page of this desire thread.

If the Moon is made of cheese, we should worry about how it gets restored every month?

Granted. comes = true; Granted. "Thank you so much! The support team is informed about your problem, and we will contact you as soon as possible! Your participation is very important for us!" Granted. Krampus ate campus. *** I wish for a "Yes, it is!" button on keyboard.

And their fleas. They eat each other. For the champion title.

They tried on ground, but not in space. Irl they use only EM contact sensors. The very important part of the EMDockingSystem are the colored LEDs.

Granted. Your HDD is full of DVDrips and siterips, so you can walk through them. I wish to have a translation program which is acting up.

Granted. Ho! You have a werecraft. A repair shop turns it from a piece of old junk back into the car every full moon. So, then it was double granted as I don't want to have them readable. Thanks. *** I wish to enable the shower.

By 1962 (the Cuban Missile Crysis) the USSR had just 5 combat Korolyov's R-7 launchpads (unprotected, cryogenic, with 10-12 h launch readiness, crew of 1 500 ), and above ten Yangel's R-16 (silo, hypergolic). Also the cruise missiles on Cuba were Yangel's. Every Korolyov's SLBM required a dedicated submarine project, built in a single number. So, the result of their competition was more than expected.

Everything we know about the Soviet programs tells that they did all they could as fast as possible, and the American achievements affected only the "should it be done yesterday or a day before yesterday" decision.

All KSP players divide in two generations: the veterans who stand up when hear the words "Romfarer's Lazor System" and the noobs who don't.

Korolyov was already the chairman of the Council of the Chief Designers https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Совет_главных_конструкторов (google failed to translate this page) In the military sphere he was being decisively pushed out by Yangel and Chelomei, because they were developing hypergolic missiles, rather than old-style post-WWII cryogenic ones. In the space his influence was reduced to R-7 and N-1 programs, while Yangel's and Chelomei's rockets were pressing him from bottom and from top respectively. He was in very complicated relations with Glushko, who was almost an engine monopolist and was enough happy with Yangel and Chelomei. His main goal in the space life was a Martian expedition, and everything he did mentioned this as a hidden intention. Whle this was not relevant for that time at all. So, he was making a lot of proposals to keep the situation under control, but this doesn't mean that anybody would ever alow him to stay the king of the hill. Both space programs were pure military, with civilian pom-poms and cheerleaders. There were several vital tasks of the rocket building: a multimegaton single warhead delivery; a fast recon flight to locate and highlight the targets; a long recon flight for reconnaisance; a fast inspection and intercept of an orbital object. All of them were requiring the same: a couple of tonnes launched to a very low orbit. So, at that point there was no difference between the required rockets for these tasks. While the USSR was designing an ICBM, the USA had a lot of heavy bombers, they delayed the ICBM development until the moment when they realized that Russkies are above head. Actually, a human spaceflight itself was not required at all. And von Braun in his time was almost arrested in the Pedant Germany for dreaming about a spaceflight instead of making the combat rockets as form of sabotage. *** But the problem was in the poor and unreliable electronics. The long-term recon satellites were able just to make photos on timer and drop a film capsule (or deorbit themselves). 90% of recon photos would be (and later actually were) photos of clouds, and in any case filming anything but the required direction. So, a human operator would save the film and make quick decisions what to photo and is it urgent to report by radio. The short-term recon sats were able just to photo and land, but this still required hours to get the filmed images. While a human onboard could pass above an opponent's target (say, a carrier) and report its coordinates and other info right in a half-hour after launch. Then stay in orbit and observe and report the strike results. The anti-sat craft without a human could not inspect a target at all. Also the human pilot could intercept the target with precise burst of fragmentation rockets, compensating the low accuracy of the launch. So, the single-man orbital craft, the crewless craft, and various types of a heavy warhead were being devloped at once, and a single rocket to launch them all, too. So, the only thing which matters was the necessity born to ability, and unlikely somebody's death was affecting anything but the choice of the chief maintainer. *** The "Space Race" actually looks like a race against the opponent's ability to capture the Moon first. Since the early 1950s the USA was developing Horizon and Lunex for it, and they were a pure military lunar base project. The very first orbital flights of Mercury and Vostok were dedicated to aiming at an orbital target (early Mercuries with inflatable targets and Vostok-4 aiming Vostok-3). Also the Vostok-3 offcially reached a 3-day flight duration, so it was officially stated the possibility of the Moon flight. Once the first Vostok flight happened, the USA got worried about reaching the Moon first, and offcially started the lunar hype, declaring the kinda-sport competition between the flags, explaining to the average American taxpayer how much he can't live without the Moon. As the Soviet authorities didn't need to convince the community in the lunar race necessity to fund something, they skipped this circus step and started to develop their own lunar program to not let the Americans be first. And it looks doubtful that they spent the billions just for a flag race. After all, the N1 and the minor lunar craft flights were cancelled not after the Apollos had landed, but before the Apollo flights cancelled resumption and right before the improved N1 test. After a two-year pause. So, the only real reason of the lunar race was the fear of the opponent's monopolization of the Moon, and would happen in any case until the lunar colonisation got proven hardly accessible for decades, by the Apollo hard flights.