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1 hour ago, DDE said:

So many questions...

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Is that a Earth orbital rendezvous lunar flyby ship from L-1, and a very scaled-up Sputnik 3?

No, tovariщ, that's how Soyuz was being depicted in late 1960s.

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https://1kommunist.ru/2022/10/30/30-oktyabrya-1967-goda-vpervye-v-kosmose-byla-proizvedena-avtomaticheskaya-stykovka-sputnikov-kosmos-186-i-kosmos-188-yavlyavshiesya-prototipami-kosmicheskogo-korablya-soyuz-unikalnoe-dostiz/

Even Dead Morose Ded Moroz wasn't aware of its real look.

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From General Kamanin's diary, January 5, 1969.

  US USSR
Total number of flights 18 10
Combined cosmonaut flight time, hours 3 215 629
Number of EVAs 9 1
Number of manned orbital rendezvous 12 2
Number of manned dockings 7 0
Number of flown maneuverable manned ships 12 1

 

 

 

 

 

"I've got a bad feeling about this Moon race" (quip mine)

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13 hours ago, DDE said:

"I've got a bad feeling about this Moon race" (quip mine)

https://warspot-ru.translate.goog/15321-na-lunu-k-50-letiyu-oktyabrya?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

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The military was not delighted with the designer’s initiatives. At a meeting on N-I, held on September 23 at the Tyura-Tam training ground (the future Baikonur Cosmodrome), First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Missile Weapons, Lieutenant General Alexander Grigorievich Mrykin, demanded a direct explanation of how OKB-1 projects will contribute to achieving military goals. On January 9, 1961, the Defense Council decided to review the funds allocated for space exploration for scientific purposes in order to “concentrate the efforts of industrial design organizations, first of all, on solving the most important problems in the interests of the country’s defense . ”

moon-schmoon, who needs it?

P.S.
Interesting fact: in Russian the line about would be a rhyme: "луна-муна, кому она нужна?"

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Meanwhile at the Korolev readings, marginal LVs and ships abound.

Energomash is still working on a plug nozzle engine for Korona https://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2870

Meanwhile at Energia, somebody's brewed up a Dreamchaser https://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2865

Edit: whoa, a godawfully ugly Energomash SSTOhttps://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2874

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20 hours ago, DDE said:

Meanwhile at the Korolev readings, marginal LVs and ships abound.

Energomash is still working on a plug nozzle engine for Korona https://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2870

Meanwhile at Energia, somebody's brewed up a Dreamchaser https://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2865

Edit: whoa, a godawfully ugly Energomash SSTOhttps://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2874

@shotinfobar makes a "brave proposition": a Museum of Roscosmos Slides.

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On 1/23/2024 at 1:18 PM, DDE said:

Meanwhile at Energia, somebody's brewed up a Dreamchaser https://t.me/dobriy_ovchinnikov/2865

If replace the docking port on top with a twin-gun turret, they can add a gunner-radiooperator to the crew, or operate it by pilots.

Spoiler

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(I like the civil "Aeroflot" onboard together with the top gun.)

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On 1/24/2024 at 10:05 AM, DDE said:

@shotinfobar makes a "brave proposition": a Museum of Roscosmos Slides.

"I have seen things you wouldn't believe..."

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5 hours ago, darthgently said:

I like the EOC iconography style bashed with Soviet Roscosmos PR styles.  Noice

The author refers to the background as "grotesque architecture of a world now alien to the returning starfarer". I was just itching to post some of his work here.

"Byzantine futurism" is Anton Frolov's shtick. So enjoy Einstein Cross.

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Soundtrack as recommended by the painter:

 

 

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By the time I wake up tomorrow, Kononenko will have beaten Padalaka's lifetime flight record of 878 days 11 hours 30 minutes.

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15 hours ago, DDE said:

-But what about the Russian space nu...

Judging by the noises being made, this could be about our old friend 14F350 Equipage, not a bomb.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/national-security-warning-reportedly-involves-russian-space-weapon

https://thespacereview.com/article/3809/1

You know, Putin's Address to the Federal ssembly isn't far off. New cartoon time?

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