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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Tagged:Chelomei, Dos, Nudelman, Okb 1, Okb 52, Oleg Makarov, Ops, Pavel Popovich, Proton, Rikhter, Salyut 2, Salyut 3, Soyuz 14, Yuri Artyukhin
Posted on December 6, 2024
According to George Low, the Soviet mission operations control room was quite large – it contained 16 two-man consoles, thus allowing them 32 flight controllers. In addition, there was a back row of consoles which were used for personnel such as the ...
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