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#620
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Mark Dave
on 12 Apr, 2011 12:05
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Could the Proton booster be used for Manned flights?
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#621
by
Jim
on 12 Apr, 2011 12:14
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Could the Proton booster be used for Manned flights?
It was going for the Zond program
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#622
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 12 Apr, 2011 13:01
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Could the Proton booster be used for Manned flights?
It was going for the Zond program
Not to mention that the military TKS spacecraft was only one successful missions away from flying manned. The lack of need of a military space station killed the program in making the TKS as a ferry craft, but the cargo compartment became the basis for most of the Russian station modules.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/tks.htm
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#623
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Malderi
on 12 Apr, 2011 20:55
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With the recent Shuttle announcement, I got curious - what happens to all of the Soyuz descent modules after flight? There's about a hundred of them now, right? I can't imagine Russia even has enough museums for all of them. Assuming they aren't all in a dusty warehouse somewhere, who gets 'em and who decides?
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#624
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Danderman
on 13 Apr, 2011 04:51
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With the recent Shuttle announcement, I got curious - what happens to all of the Soyuz descent modules after flight? There's about a hundred of them now, right? I can't imagine Russia even has enough museums for all of them. Assuming they aren't all in a dusty warehouse somewhere, who gets 'em and who decides?
No one knows.
Seriously, I have seen lists of locations of flown Soyuz descent capsules, although never one that claimed to be comprehensive.
My feeling is that more than a few descent modules have been re-used, and so a comprehensive list would be difficult to produce.
A similar question is what happened to all of those hundreds of Zenit capsules that were launched over some 30 years? I know that those were re-used twice apiece, but still, that implies there are a lot out there.
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#625
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Mark Dave
on 04 May, 2011 15:40
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How long does it take the Soyuz to get from the Assembly building to the launch pad? To compare, the Crawler Transporter takes six hours to get from the VAB to LC-39.
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#626
by
anik
on 04 May, 2011 16:40
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How long does it take the Soyuz to get from the Assembly building to the launch pad?
Two hours is from the assembly building on site 112 to launch pad on site 1. When we have used the assembly building on site 2 it was faster.
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#627
by
Phillip Clark
on 04 May, 2011 18:03
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With the recent Shuttle announcement, I got curious - what happens to all of the Soyuz descent modules after flight? There's about a hundred of them now, right? I can't imagine Russia even has enough museums for all of them. Assuming they aren't all in a dusty warehouse somewhere, who gets 'em and who decides?
No one knows.
Seriously, I have seen lists of locations of flown Soyuz descent capsules, although never one that claimed to be comprehensive.
My feeling is that more than a few descent modules have been re-used, and so a comprehensive list would be difficult to produce.
A similar question is what happened to all of those hundreds of Zenit capsules that were launched over some 30 years? I know that those were re-used twice apiece, but still, that implies there are a lot out there.
During the Soviet era, the descent modules carrying the "guest" cosmonaut would be given to the country from which the cosmonaut came for public display.
Otherwise, the Energiya museum seems to have a nice collection of piloted descent modules.
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#628
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Mark Dave
on 05 May, 2011 15:18
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I saw in the video of the roll out of the Expedition 27/28 Soyuz, you saw the Energia/ Buran vehicle transporter. That thing is huge and took four diesel locomotives to move it. What will become of it now? Will it just be left to rust or will it be scrapped?
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#629
by
Citabria
on 05 May, 2011 15:45
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Just heard this morning that many Soviet-era films are being released on YouTube. Has anyone found any Soviet spaceflight films on line?
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#630
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Mark Dave
on 06 May, 2011 12:56
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Which launch was it where one of the strap on boosters of the R-7 came off during launch? I saw photos of it, where the rocket exploded as a result of this.
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#631
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Danderman
on 06 May, 2011 13:32
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Just heard this morning that many Soviet-era films are being released on YouTube. Has anyone found any Soviet spaceflight films on line?
You can check this site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tvroscosmos
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#632
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Danderman
on 06 May, 2011 13:33
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Which launch was it where one of the strap on boosters of the R-7 came off during launch? I saw photos of it, where the rocket exploded as a result of this.
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#633
by
Mark Dave
on 06 May, 2011 14:22
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#634
by
Stan Black
on 06 May, 2011 15:37
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#635
by
Zpoxy
on 06 May, 2011 21:42
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#636
by
Mark Dave
on 07 May, 2011 13:09
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Scary footage of that.
I wonder if on board cameras attached to the rocket will be done in future launches? For example the US Delta launches and the shuttle launches have on board cameras showing where the rocket is in flight and how high it is.
The closest to an on board view is seen in this cgi render by Roscosmos.
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#637
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Mark Dave
on 10 May, 2011 23:36
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How come the truss design is different on the two R-7 rockets from say Vostok and Luna to the present Soyuz? I counted the number of triangular struts. Old design had 8 or so, and the Soyuz has 12.
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#638
by
Skylab
on 28 May, 2011 15:37
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With Putin having decreed the Russian ISS segment should consist of 8 modules by 2015, and the recent increase in the space budget, has any work on modules beyond the Node Module been done or planned?
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#639
by
Danderman
on 28 May, 2011 22:25
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How come the truss design is different on the two R-7 rockets from say Vostok and Luna to the present Soyuz? I counted the number of triangular struts. Old design had 8 or so, and the Soyuz has 12.
Heavier upper stage.