Posted on November 19, 2015
Chief Designer Mishin proposed a two-launch “stopover” scenario for the piloted flight to the moon. This was similar to one of NASA’s earth orbit rendezvous modes to reach the moon. The gist of the plan was, the UR-500K would insert the 7K-L1 into or...
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Proton 7K-L1 launch vehicle configuration
K140 orbit 5
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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 December 10, 2015
“I was the last one to see him alive and I told him ‘See you soon!’” Yuri Gagarin, recalls bidding farewell to his friend Kamarov in Soyuz 1.
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Posted on December 17, 2015
“It’s a terrible scene. Komarov burned up. All the instruments burned. We must quickly find out what prevented the main parachute from unlatching.” Chief Designer Mishin after he arrived at the Soyuz 1 crash site.
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Posted on January 7, 2016
After 1957, the Soviets became accustomed to achieving “world firsts” in space accomplishments. Nevertheless, 10 years later they were not confident that they could pull off the world’s first fully automatic rendezvous and docking of two un-piloted S...
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2-Armen Sergeyevich Mnatsakanyan Main designer of Igla and Kurs
1-Mishin at Baykonur in 1967
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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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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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2-Zond-5 has delivered two tortoises back to the Earth
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...
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2-Zond 6 Mission Profile
1-Proton-K with 7K-L1
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Posted on March 1, 2024
At this point in 1973, the Soviets were attempting to fly 2 types of space station, the long duration orbital station scientific version called DOS. The other station was a military spy space station equipped with a machine gun, called Almaz or OPS ...
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Posted on March 15, 2024
This second generation of the Soyuz spacecraft, the Soyuz 7k-T was flown on Soyuz 12 through Soyuz 40 missions from 1973–1981. The new 7K-T spacecraft was designed to accommodate only two cosmonauts who would wear pressure suits at all times during l...
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Tagged:Dos, Okb 1, Okb 3, Oleg Makarov, Ops, Orion 2, Proton, Pyotr Klimuk, Salyut 2, Soyuz 12, Soyuz 13, Valentin Lebedev, Vasily Lazarev, Vasily Mishin
Posted on May 17, 2024
Salyut 3 featured a “self-defense” gun purportedly designed by Alexander Nudelman for station use. Some reports suggest it was outfitted with a Nudelman-Rikhter “Vulkan” gun, a modified version of the 23mm Nudelman aircraft cannon, or conceivably a N...
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Posted on June 1, 2024
Initially, the rendezvous with Salyut 3 proceeded smoothly. However, as the Soyuz spacecraft approached the station, a critical problem arose. The Igla rendezvous system, designed to guide the spacecraft to the station, malfunctioned.
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Posted on June 15, 2024
The Salyut 4 space station, designated DOS-4, marked the second phase of the Soviet Union’s civilian space station program. It was an improved version of the failed Salyut 2 station, with several notable enhancements.
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Posted on December 18, 2014
The circumlunar plan involved 3 new spacecrafts. First the Soyuz A 7K spacecraft, capable of carrying three men, (2 men for a circumlunar flight) into space and returning them to earth. The 5.5 ton spacecraft has three modules, the orbital module, th...
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Tagged:11k, 7k, 8k74, 9k, Alexei Isayev, Boris Cherkov, Br 9 Telemetry System, Chelomey, Chizhikov, Glusko, Keldysh, Khrushchev, Korolev, Korolyov Design Bureau, Kuybyshev, L3, N1, Nikolay Kamanin, Okb 1, Okb 456, Okb 52, Podpilki Mafia, Proton, R7, Semyorka, Soyuz, Tikhonravov, Turkov, Ur 500, Ur 500k, Vilnitskiy, Vostok, Zenits
Posted on January 1, 2015
After Voskhod-2, an ideological vacuum, disorder, and vacillation cropped up in the Soviet maned space program. There was no clear-cut answer to which project should be the priority, a new series of Voskhods, artificial gravity experiments, or the co...
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Tagged:11k, 7k, 8k74, 9k, Boris Cherkov, Chertok, Chizhikov, Frank Borman, Gemini Vi, Gemini Vii, Igla, James Lovell, Keldysh, Khrushchev, Korolev, Korolyov Design Bureau, Kuybyshev, L3, N1, Nii 648, Nikolay Kamanin, Okb 1, Okb 456, Okb 52, Proton, R7, Rauschanbach, Semyorka, Soyuz, Thomas Stafford, Tikhonravov, Turkov, Tyulin, Ur 500, Ur 500k, Ur 700, Voskhod, Vostok, Walter Schirra
Posted on January 8, 2015
“In those days, the Party organizations in industry were not only involved with policy, ideology, and the “struggle against nonconformist thought,” but tried to get involved in technology and production engineering. Wielding real authority over peopl...
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7kokDocking Simulators
7kok Assembly
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Posted on January 15, 2015
After many delays in launching the first Soyuz due to design complications, equipment deliveries, the learning curve for testing new designs, unreasonable launch dates, persecution from the communist party, and the death of Chief Designer Korolev. T...
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7k-ok diagram
7k-0kInterior
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Posted on January 22, 2015
The first Soyuz test flight was a catastrophic failure. Due to negligence, the attitude control system malfunctioned and used all of its fuel before a rendezvous could be attempted or even the second Soyuz rocket could be launched. When the Soviet...
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Tagged:500k, 7k L1, 7k Ok, Agadzhanov, Boris Cherkov, Bushuyev, Chasma, Chertok, Cosomodrome, Crimea, Crimean Naval Airfield, Dolinsk, Emergency Rescue Engines, Emergency Rescue System, Feed One, Feed Two, Feoktistov, Group M, Group T, Group Ye, Humikaan, Igla, Kalashnikov, Kamanin, Kamchatka, Keldysh, Kerimov, Khazanov, Kirillov, Kis, Korolev, Kosmos 133, Kuybyshev, Mishin, Okb 1, P V Tsybin, Proton, R A Turkov, R7, Rabotyagov, Rauschenbach, Rudenko, Ryazanskiy, Saki, Semyonov, Semyorka, Shabarov, Soyuz, Tregub, Tskbem, Tsybin, Turkov, Tyulin, Vachnadze, Voskhod, Yevpatoriya