maks

maks

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Looking for hard copies of the following books. Reply or DM if you have one for sale or know smne who does! "Triumf i tragediya Energii" (tom 3) Gubanov '98 "Rakety-nositeli. Kosmodromy" Umanskiy '01 "Nezabyvaemye Kosmicheskie Programmy" ed. Kirilin '13 "Put k Energii" Filin '01

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it also keeps ignoring the window size preferences and launching documents in 0 by 0 pixel windows

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ok I’m on 2006, one more chapter

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cheeky Science Power Platform pressure vessel in the background my article on the power stick should finally land in a couple of days, it's going to be pretty chonky, but well illustrated

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cheeky Science Power Platform pressure vessel in the background my article on the power stick should finally land in a couple of days, it's going to be pretty chonky, but well illustrated

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not bad

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After a spot of pre-dinner retouching, a lovely new photo of a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant during a flight test with a Buran orbiter test article on its back.

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another previously unreleased photo of 1K "Buran" in the short-lived Baikal livery casually dropped by Vadim Lukashevich as part of a meme

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Some shots from the 2004 online auction where the third Buran orbiter was for offered for sale on allegro (iykyk)

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ok sorry for the chaos, there might be something to this model after all. it does seem to be the same model as in this photo of Pilyugin and Lozino-Lozinskiy dated 1978

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and again the model in the NPO Molniya museum, showing a similar livery to the mid-80s illustrations of the almost final orbiter design

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by mid-1976 (or 1978) that final configuration (305-2 - right)) was approved, succeeding OK-92 (center), so if the model is of OS-120 (left), the configuration is out of date by 3 years. it could also just be based on the Space Shuttle shape, which by that time already had the short OMS pods

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In a way quite infuriating that they’ve been sitting on these for 40 years. The photos in the top left were officially published in 2023 as crappy 800 pixel wide scans in black and white

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need

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tbt when the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant carrying the second Buran orbiter skidded off the runway and got stuck in the snow at Zhukovsky

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Another one. this time just a before and after the souvenirs were taken

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a Buran forward fuselage test article outside NPO Molniya's Tushino factory gradually losing tiles to ebaycitis over time

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If I got a penny for every time someone brought up bald and bankrupt to me I’d have at least 39 pennies

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my recreation of the Danne and Blackburn-era NASA video intro brutally compressed into gif form

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Messing around on Google Earth trying to locate bits of Buran and Energia hardware, and suddenly the MAKS propellant tank mockup appeared before my eyes, right next to a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant and the PKU-50 mate-demate device at Zhukovsky airfield. Image from 2002.

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a Buran forward fuselage test article outside NPO Molniya's Tushino factory gradually losing tiles to ebaycitis over time

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Took me way too long to spot this, but Rockwell's full-scale mockup of the Shuttle orbiter was built before the design was finalised, so it features the Vehicle 4 configuration's longer OMS pods that overlap the payload bay instead of the blunt pods on the final Vehicle 6.

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There's also the flip-out RCS, but that was later painted over; the OMS pairings retained the funky shape.

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Took me way too long to spot this, but Rockwell's full-scale mockup of the Shuttle orbiter was built before the design was finalised, so it features the Vehicle 4 configuration's longer OMS pods that overlap the payload bay instead of the blunt pods on the final Vehicle 6.