Episodes Tagged with "Vasily Mishin"

Sep 7

Space Rocket History #176 – The First Test Flight of the Soviet N1

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

Mar 1

Space Rocket History #199 – The Second Test Flight of the Soviet N1 Moon Rocket

Posted on March 1, 2017

On July 3, 1969, the same month as the the Apollo 11 Moon landing, The Soviet Union made another secret attempt to fly their giant Moon rocket.

3-Escape rockets fire at the top of the doomed N1 No. 5L vehicle, as it begins a devastating collapse back to its launch pad

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Tagged:7k Ls1, Afanasyev, Baikinor, Chertok, Cosomodrome, Kord, Lk, Vasily Mishin, Zond

Mar 1

Space Rocket History #434 – Salyut 2, Mars 4, 5, 6, 7 & Tang Ceremony

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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Tagged:Almaz, Chelomey, Dos, Mars 4, Mars 5, Mars 6, Mars7, Mol, Okb 1, Okb 52, Ops, Proton, Salyut 2, Vasily Mishin

Mar 15

Space Rocket History #435 – Soyuz 12 & 13

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

Dec 4

Space Rocket History #91 – The Death of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev – Part 3

Posted on December 4, 2014

Around noon on January 14th, Boris Chertok was alone in his office studying a folder of classified mail that had accumulated during the past few days. He had asked not to be disturbed. Suddenly his subordinate ran in and shouted, “Sergey Pavlovich di...

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Tagged:Boris Vasiliyevich Petrovskiy, Brezhnev, Central Committee, Chertok, Chief Designer, Gagarin, Gird, Glusko, Goddard, History, Icbm, Korolev, Kremlin, Leonid Smirnov, Leonov, Mittelwerke, Nazi, Nina Ivanovna, Nizhyn, Peenemunde, R 7, R7, Rnii, Rocket, Rp 318, Russia, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Soviet, Space, Stalin, This Entry Was Posted In Podcast And Tagged Exploration, Tupolev, Vasily Mishin, Von Braun, Weapons