The Iron Curtain is a relative term. Did Stalin hate America? Passionate love is hate. Now all official Russia is very fond of the West and keeps money in Western offshores. Our country secretly adores America. A good example of this is these reprints in old Soviet magazines and books from...
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I just found this picture in an old Italian magazine:
The caption says it is a special amphibian veichle to recover the Mercury capsule. The picture was taken during an exercise, using a mockup of the Mercury, with the same dimensions and mass.
On this day in 1951, the Soviet Union launched the R-1 rocket into space with two dogs. The names of the dogs were Dezik and Cigan the flight lasted 20 minutes and the rocket reached an altitude of 110 km
these were the first living beings to leave the earth
Hi.
Found on the bay a (yet undocumented here) 1967 report authored by H.H. Koelle (Institute of space Technology / Berlin Technical University).
The "student" study report might bear some interest today.
Enjoy.
A.
The Russian military has finally revealed the rocket-propelled grenade weapon system developed for the Almaz space station project in the 1970s.
Links:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz-shield2.html
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz_ops2.html
:eek: :cool:
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The 12th April is the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin being the first man in space.
Here’s this weeks Archive on 4 about that historic trip.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v24g
From the ever interesting Scott Manley:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iao41k81q90
Able-2 of course was later retroactively renamed to Pioneer 1.
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I really love this web site it has so much fantastic info on the hidden or forgotten space projects. Sadly, I don’t visit this website enough due to my projects.
In 1989 I had my old boardgame Liftoff! Race to the Moon published; a simulation for four players with alternate proposed ways of...
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