Posted on December 3, 2015
With the success of Kosmos 146 and in spite of the failures of the first three 7K-Ok’s it was now time to plan for a Soyuz manned mission. The planned involved the launch and docking of two piloted Soyuzes. Soyuz 7K-OK production model number 4 was a...
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Posted on March 3, 2016
When we left the Soviet Union they had somewhat successfully landed a probe on Venus and they had completed the automatic docking of two Soyuz 7K-OK spacecrafts. However they did not reach their goal of a circumlunar flight in time for the 50th anni...
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Tagged:100k Star Tracker, 7k L1, 7k Ok, Afanasyev, Agadzhanov, Alexi Lenov, Apollo 4, Barmin, Bezhitsa, Block D, Boris Cherkov, Bushuyev, Bykovskiy, Canopus, Central Committe, Chelomey, Chertok, Cosomodrome, Crimea, Design Bureau 1, Glusko, Gulf Of Guinea, Icbm, Kamanin, Kerimov, Khrunov, Korolev, Kremlin, Mishin, N1, N1 L3, Nip 16, Okb 1, Parachute, Politburo, Proton, Ristna, Sadovskiy, Saturn V, Semyonov, Shabarov, Sirius, Soyuz, Tregub, Tskbem, Tyulin, Tyura Tam, Ur 500k, Ussr, Ustinov, Yevpatoriya, Yuri Gagarin, Zond, Zond 4
Posted on March 9, 2016
Hundreds of millions of people all over the planet had seen Gagarin smiling joyfully in person or on television. He was theirs, familiar to everyone, and at the same time a “Citizen of the Universe.”
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2-Plaque indicating Gagarin’s interment in the Kremlin Wall
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Posted on March 16, 2016
The first attempt for a Zond 4 follow-up launched on April 22. It failed when the Launch Escape System sent an erroneous abort command at T+260 seconds and shut down the Proton booster’s second stage. The escape rocket fired and pulled the descent m...
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1-Zond 5 Makes Lunar Round-Trip
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Posted on May 4, 2016
Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380 mm of Mercury. With the drop in cabin pressure all the animal test subjects died. It would have kille...
3-Zond 6 Double-dip reentry
2-Zond 6 Mission Profile
1-Proton-K with 7K-L1
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Posted on September 7, 2016
Finally, on the morning of February 21, all the population of the N1 assembly area and a residential area, situated just south of the launch pad, was ordered to evacuate. The giant service structure then rolled away leaving the dark-gray rocket with ...
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Tagged:7k Ls1, 7k Ok, Afanasyev, Baikinor, Block A, Block B, Block D, Block G, Block V, Chertok, Circumlunar, Cosomodrome, Design Bureau 1, Kazakhstan, Khrunov, Komarov, Kord, Kremlin, Kurushin, Lk, Lok, N 1, N1, N1 L3, Nk 15, Nk 21, Okb 1, Parachute, Pilyugin, Rkk Energiya Museum, Salyut, Saturn V, Sirius, Soviet Union, Soyuz, Stroganov, Tyuratam, Ussr, Vasily Mishin, Vladimir Shatalov, Volynov, Voskhod, Zond, Zond 6