A collection of various South African propulsion projects, prototypes and ideas. Bits and pieces of these projects have been scattered around this site, I think it's time to gather them into one place for easy reference. Starting with this article on Cape Aerospace Technologies (CAT) designs...
Does anyone know more about the Raketoplan designs in the background of the picture, which are on display at the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics?
To which OKB do they belong?
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This was a Alternate Cold War story publish in Alternate History.com in 2015
Sadly over years thing went not so well and my co-authors lost interest or had not time anymore.
I have decided to reworking, re-writing, re-editing this Alternate History for this Forum as a Solo...
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
As said in the tin. I've worked on this huge thing since February 2008 when I joined, first, NASAspaceflight.com and AH.com.
Took me a decade and 2019 to get a stronger focus and backstory.
Now the POD is clearer.
In August 1967 at a crucial juncture in NASA history the last Lunar Orbiter...
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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