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    Post  GarryB Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:19 am

    Are you suggesting we amputate all of our Cosmonauts Legs?

    No... I am suggesting that people without legs... whether they lost them or never had them from birth, would make better crew for long periods in space or operating space stations. Even if you took them down to the surface you could give them mobility in small motorised vehicles... though the weight of the motorised vehicles would offset the weight saved by not taking their legs in the first place.
    Obviously it would be of no benefit to have people who have lost the use of their legs if they are still attached to their bodies.
    From the persons perspective they would have a huge advantage over people with the encumbrance of legs in space as they will be more compact and lighter.
    The only further improvement would be if you could replace some ones legs with arms with hands so you could manouver around the spacecraft while doing something like reading or holding things with two hands.

    EVAs would be much easier if your body was tethered to the robot arm and you had 4 hands to hold stuff like tools and parts etc etc.
    I am just saying that for a crewman that operates in space only and not on Mars or the Moon legs are not much use so why not pick a crewman without legs.
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    Post  Aramonik Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:05 am


    On Flight Day 12 the STS-133 crew members undocked space shuttle Discovery
    from the International Space Station to begin their journey home to Earth.
    They're scheduled to land on Flight Day 14, Mar. 9, at 11:58 a.m. EST at
    the Kennedy Space Center

    Dmitri Kondratiev: "Yesterday, for the crew of Discovery was the last day on ISS
    :: 07/03/2011
    Yesterday, the crew of space shuttle Discovery astronauts said goodbye to
    the astronauts and the 26-second long-duration expedition to the International
    Space habitats. This was explained in its orbital blog on the website of the
    Federal Space Agency Russian Space Agency astronaut Dmitri Kondratiev.

    "Yesterday, for the crew of Space Shuttle was the last day for the ISS.
    In the evening held a farewell for the two crews. The whole period of
    the crew «Discovery» ISS has been very busy. Shuttle crew members carried
    out two spacewalks, performed a large number of scientific experiments
    and a large amount of handling. Weekend the crew shuttles do not happen.
    U.S. ISS crew members also worked seven days a week 14 consecutive days,
    supporting the work of the crew of shuttle. I want to note a very good
    coordination with all work between the crews of the ISS, the shuttle and
    ground personnel. Undocking is scheduled for Monday, "- wrote Dimitri.
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    Post  nightcrawler Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:08 am

    The Engines That Came In From The Cold told the amazing story behind the use of Russian-designed rocket engines in the next generation of US space launchers. The engines harness a technology that Americans thought to be beyond the capabilities of modern engineering - but which had in fact been mastered by the Russians 30 years ago. Russias lead in rocket technology came largely thanks to the work of one man - Sergei Korolev, Russias most senior rocket scientist. His approach to rocket design was to try it and see, using test flights to answer important design questions. Failures were common, but Korolevs team always learned something from them.

    I can't embed video here its hosted on blip.tv
    so watch here
    http://defencedog.blogspot.com/2011/02/engines-that-came-in-from-cold.html
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    Post  Aramonik Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:55 am

    Bravo Comrade Nightcrawler!!! Space Flight Videos - Page 2 94819
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    A legendary NK-33 rocket engine was originally developed to carry Soviet cosmonauts
    on their way to the Moon onboard a giant N1 rocket. After the ill-fated lunar effort
    was aborted in 1974, dozens of already manufactured NK-33s ended up in storage.
    For decades, engine developers searched for a new job for the capable powerplant.
    Finally, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, NK-33 had a real chance
    to fly, this time powering both American and Russian rockets. By 2010, the Russian
    government came close to making a decision to jump-start mass production of the
    NK-33 engine.
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    Around 80 already manufactured NK-33 engines have been left in storage since the 1970s.
    In the meantime, Orbital forecasted the need for as many as 100 engines for the Taurus
    II project until 2020. With the decision of the Russian Ministry of Defense to develop
    the Soyuz-1 rocket, which would also employ NK-33, the restart of production had to be
    considered. By the middle of 2010, Rosoboronprom, a government entity which oversaw the
    engine manufacturer, committed to restart NK-33 production by 2014-2015,
    Russian officials said.
    http://www.russianspaceweb.com/nk33.html


    Two Soviet "Union": A Meeting in Orbit

    40 years ago, launched from Baikonur, Soyuz-4 ". The next day,
    went into space, "Soyuz-5. A day later two Soviet of the Union
    met in orbit. TASS announced to the world for the first time
    in Earth's orbit an experimental space station.
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    Post  nightcrawler Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:00 am

    Sorry for my being slightly off-topic but I feel that Russian space industry & more still is technical background can easily compete with any western platform however I had seen recently I video in which the education system of Russia is ridiculed & was appealed to be more westernised. Russians here might shed some light why Russian education is ridiculed if it had bore many historical milestones??
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    Post  GarryB Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:52 pm

    I love to read western stuff about how Russia is 10 years behind at this and 30 years behind at that... it seems that for their 2020 space craft the US wants a 40 year old Russian rocket engine... Cool

    BTW thanks for the vids and links guys... and Nightcrawler... that website that had the video you posted... do a search on Secret Russian aircraft of WWII and you will learn about early Russian work on jet engines and rockets and delta wings and that glass stealth aircraft I mentioned a while back... it wasn't just the Nazis that were advanced in certain areas back then...
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    Post  Aramonik Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:48 am

    nightcrawler wrote:Sorry for my being slightly off-topic

    Not even slightly off topic Comrade pirat
    The thread is for anything to do with spaceflight.
    And GerryB, it is indeed incredible how people
    in the west always think they simply must be
    ahead of the world in every single way. With the
    Shuttle being grounded, its a Russian Soyuz to
    orbit, or stay home. Perhaps the Chinese will sell
    us a few of their Shenzhou space craft. With the
    US program being handed over to the Corporatist,
    you can bet no US Man-rated spacecraft for 10 years.
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    Post  nightcrawler Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:31 am

    that website that had the video you posted... do a search on Secret Russian aircraft of WWII and you will learn about early Russian work on jet engines and rockets and delta wings and that glass stealth aircraft I mentioned a while back... it wasn't just the Nazis that were advanced in certain areas back then...

    Yes sir; I have got it. Perhaps I am just a student & information like these needed to be searched. I was naive about this but recently I got hold of a document [shrouded in secrecy]. It was translated by Tel Aviv university namely 50 years of Russian Design Bureau. Wait till I upload it.

    Also it wasn't the west that ridiculed Russian education system rather it was a Russian talkshow hosted on RIA Novosti & the analysts there all were Russians. They quoted that 17% or such in Chinese higher officials are western educated & less than 2% in Russia & this attributed to Russian amateur long term planning dunno
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    Post  GarryB Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:08 am

    They quoted that 17% or such in Chinese higher officials are western
    educated & less than 2% in Russia & this attributed to Russian
    amateur long term planning...

    You know... I keep hearing here in NZ about how smart the west is, yet there are so many points to contradict that.
    For instance NZs economy is not that great at the moment due to the economic downturn and the enormous cost of the earthquake in Christchurch and we are told that we don't save enough and we are spending money we don't have and that is creating the problems.
    Then I see an American program about China and it seems that the Chinese SAVE too much and that their problem is that they don't spend enough and that is what is wrong with their economy.
    The value of the NZ dollar goes up and the exporters moan that it is bad for the economy... the value of the NZ dollar goes down and the importers complain that the prices of imported goods will go up which means inflation which is bad for the economy...

    Years ago our politicians all pointed at Ireland and said the solution is there... very low or no tax on companies and they will all come here and make lots of money which will be great for the economy.
    They seem to have forgotten saying that now that Ireland is in the Sh!t and all their foreign companies have left looking for other places with low tax levels... which must be basic common sense... a company that is mobile and can come to your country because of your favourable tax rates can leave just as fast... there is no loyalty when the focus is max profit.

    We like to think we know what we are talking about in the west but human greed can make people take stupid decisions anywhere... it all started in the US with banks giving loans to everyone and anyone for buying houses... the house market was climbing so anyone who couldn't pay was not a problem... take possession of their house and sell it for more than they paid to buy it in the first place... they aren't making more land so the Bank couldn't lose. Till people started building lots more houses and all of a sudden people were paying enormous loans on houses that had suddenly dropped in value... they were trapped in a loan they couldn't pay off in a house that if they sold still wouldn't pay off their loan so they would be homeless and in debt!!!

    Banks don't make money on ma and pa with their money in their bank... they make it off interest on home loans and investments...

    What I am trying to say is that there are plenty of experts that pop up with solutions and they are all western educated and they all suggest different solutions... if your currency is high then it needs to go down... and any year where there is only small growth figures is a year you must jump out of a building and kill yourself!
    Continual significant growth cannot lead to a good thing.
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    Post  Aramonik Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:28 am

    Greetings Comrades pirat
    Discovery is home safe, but the show
    must go on. I heard Nasa may keep 1
    or more of the Shuttles more in
    storage rather than deactivated. Yet
    to be decided.

    PAC Soyuz TMA-21. Work in the assembly building.

    Preparations for the launch of Soyuz TMA-21 ".
    March 9 at the Baikonur cosmodrome after a successful vacuum test a manned
    spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21 relocated to stand elektroispytany for further training.
    Launch manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21 with a crew 27/28-y long-duration
    expedition to the ISS from Baikonur is scheduled for March 30, 2011
    The spacecraft will receive its own name "Gagarin," and start it will focus on the
    50 th anniversary of the first manned flight into space.


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    Post  nightcrawler Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:50 pm

    Not streamed you have to download this documentary; its a very informative & reflects the Russian achievements in Space Warfare when US had nothing equivalent. Interviews of the Russian Scientist make this a must watch
    http://defencedog.blogspot.com/2011/02/nova-astrospies.html
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    Post  Aramonik Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:40 pm

    Hey Comrades, Whats up? Cool
    Soyuz TMA-21: Countdown to Gagarin Launch

    On April 2, at 5am MSK, Soyuz-FG rocket with Soyuz TMA-21 crew vehicle
    was rolled out from integration and test facility 112 and transported to site 1
    (Gagarin's launch pad). The launch of the Soyuz with the crew of Expedition
    27 is slated for April 5, at 2:18 a m.
    Expedition 27 Crew Prepares for Launch.

    At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 27 Soyuz
    Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA Flight Engineer Ron
    Garan and Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko participated
    in a variety of activities between March 17 and 25 in Baikonur,
    Kazakhstan as they prepared for launch March 30, Baikonur time,
    intheir Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
    The footage includes the crew's arrival in Baikonur, their suited
    and unsuited fit checks in the Soyuz, the raising of flags outside
    their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters and other traditional
    activities.
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    Post  Aramonik Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:23 am

    "Let's go!" "Yuri Gagarin" was successfully launched from Baikonur. Hurrah!!!
    :: 04/05/2011

    50 years after Yuri Gagarin's famous "Let's go!" Said the commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 Alexander Samokutyaev when the rocket Soyuz-FG launch pulled away from the table .

    Today, in 02 hours 18 minutes 20 seconds Moscow time from pl. Baikonur launched a rocket Soyuz-FG with the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21. On board the ship is the crew 27/28 lengthy expeditions to the International Space Station. The ship got its own name "Yuri Gagarin" in honor of the first cosmonaut.

    After about 9 minutes after launch vehicle was successfully launched into orbit.

    For the first time in space the astronauts went to the Federal Space Agency Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko.For NASA astronaut Ronald Garan began the second space flight.

    Successful further flight crew chief wished Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov, N., who all this time there was a direct connection with Samokutyaevym, Borisenko and Guarani.

    Alexander, Andrew, Ronald wish you good luck! " - Said Anatoly.

    Launch took place on the launch pad at Baikonur which is called "Gagarin's Start". It was here 50 years ago, April 12, 1961, began the world's first manned flight.
    "The fact that the Soyuz TMA-21 launched from the" Gagarin "complex, makes this launch even more festive," - said one of the honored guests, which are now at the Baikonur set.
    Among them - Jaures Ivanovich Alferov - physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Pavel Astakhov - authorized the Presidential Council for Child Rights, Sergei Ilgizovich Zagidullin - Chief Federal Inspector in the Moscow region the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Central Federal District, Sergey Lukyanenko - famous writer Science fiction, Irina Rodnina - Soviet figure skater, three-time Olympic champion, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Education, Leonid Roshal - Doctors of the World, director of the Moscow Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, member of Commission on Human Rights under President of Russian Federation Oxana Fedorova G. - television presenter, president of the "Hasten to do good!" and others.

    With admiration for the start of watching a young artist from French Guiana, a 12-year-old Marcel Santos Kyle Riess. His name is already inscribed in the history of space, thanks to the emblem with a portrait of Yuri Gagarin, which drew Marseille for the crew of the Soyuz TMA-21. Won an international competition Roskosmos, the boy received a gift this trip.
    "The launch complex in Baikonur is very similar to the site launch of the Soyuz in Guiana. But as the rocket takes off, "Union" I have seen for the first time. It's awesome! "- Recognized Marcel Santos Kyle Riess.

    Soyuz TMA-21 "must stop at the module MIM-2" Search "ISS on the night of April 7.
    As told in his blog on the site Roskosmos commander of ISS-27 Dmitri Kondratiev, the station got everything ready for the arrival of three crew members.
    "To meet the new crew we have prepared a cabin on the Russian and American segments differently positioned the table in the mess that all six men were able to easily accommodate around" - said Dmitry.
    On the day of Astronautics, April 12, all six cosmonauts and astronauts to the station to take part in a number of events dedicated to the 50 th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin.
    "We are, in principle, become thus the person who will embody the theme of this festival ... 12 April we will be on the ISS, we have it planned several conferences, held a teleconference with TsUPami partners in the ISS program. Something is planned to publicize the holiday with children from different countries. And we should understand that for us it will be very exciting ... "- told in a preflight interview to the press service of Russian Federal Space Agency commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 Alexander Samokutyaev.

    Press Service of the Russian Space Agency
    http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=16189
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    Post  GarryB Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:17 am

    I have read that Saturn are working on a pulse jet rocket engine... this will be very interesting...
    Have there been any videos floating around about these?

    Some of you might be asking what a pulse jet rocket is, well, when you start up a rocket you have lots of sensors attached to it measuring temperature and pressure and thrust and it was found that when the fuel initially ignited in a rocket engine that the thrust was spiking to levels significantly higher than the thrust levels of the rocket engine even when the engine was at full throttle. A pulse jet rocket repeats that intial spike in thrust by pulsing the fuel and the rocket motor so that it is like flicking a lightbulb on an off very quickly, except instead of reducing the light levels it actually greatly increases the thrust levels of the engine.

    In some ways it is similar to a pulse jet jet engine as used in the V1 doodlebug, though this type of engine is very simple and very cheap. Basically it is a long tube that is open at the rear and has a set of vanes over the intake. When the vanes are open air can enter the front, and when they are closed they seal the front so air can't come in or out. To propel the aircraft fuel is blown into the tube and ignited, and the explosion blows the vanes at the front shut so all the blast goes out the rear of the tube generating forward thrust. As the pressure from the explosion reduces the vanes flick open and allow air to flow through the tube to provide more oxygen for the next explosion. Like a ramjet it needs forward motion to overcome the inertia of a large aircraft, but its simplicity and low cost means it can be produced in enormous numbers cheaply and it generates enough thrust to be useful. The buzz bomb got its nick name because these explosions occur at something like 30 detonations a second which from the ground sounds like a buzzing noise.

    The Russians use at least one UAV/drone with a pulse jet engine based on the DAN series of aerial targets used for air defence batteries.

    The pulse rocket motor should allow much heavier cargoes into earth orbit and beyond.
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    Post  nightcrawler Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:45 am

    ^^ Thnx Garry
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    Post  Aramonik Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:08 am

    I will see what I can find on that GarryB
    but for now pirat
    Better Russian Footage of the Gagarin Launch. HURRAH!!!

    April 5, 2011 in 02 hours 18 minutes 20 seconds Moscow time from pl.Baikonur
    launched a rocket Soyuz-FG with the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21. On board the
    ship is the crew 27/28 lengthy expeditions to the International Space Station.
    The ship got its own name "Yuri Gagarin" in honor of the first cosmonaut.

    A little-known picture of Yuri Gagarin entered into a new section of the site Roscosmos
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    The first who responded to the appeal sent to the press service of Russian Federal Space Agency pictures or stories associated with the flight of Yuri Gagarin, became one of the chiefs of Russian Federal Space Agency. My full name, Sergei Petrovich asked not to be named, said that it supports that anniversary flight of the first man into space in the country said at a decent level. And he was glad that some contribution may be made in person at this important cause. By the way, who made this montage of the 4 shots, he does not know. Maybe the veterans will respond, including the author of this little-known photograph?

    Dear readers, if you have documents, photos or stories related to A. Gagarin and his flight into space, you can send them to the press service of Russian Federal Space Agency by e-mail press@roscosmos.ru or mailing address 107996, GSP-6 , Moscow, st. Schepkin, 42. And we will publish your materials under the heading "12 April 2011 - 50 years of the first manned space flight."

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    Post  GarryB Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:27 am

    Awesome footage Aramonik.

    I was watching a technology update TV programme on RT and about 5 minutes into the programme the guy who fronts the program has his camera set up in front of a rocket during the daytime. At about 5 minutes 40 seconds the rocket actually launches and when the blast wave from the rocket exhaust hits him he dives for cover and stuff starts hitting the camera lens.

    He wasn't in real danger, but I found it interesting and amusing.

    Here it is:
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    Post  Aramonik Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:12 am

    I would love to be standing there with him
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    HURRAH Soyuz TMA 21 Gagarin!!!!
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    "Gagarin" arrived at the International Space Station

    07/04/2011
    Today, April 7, at 3:00 09 minutes 17 seconds MSK (April 6 at 23:09:17 GMT)
    to the Research Module "Search" International Space Station in an automatic
    mode, successfully docked with manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21.

    Russian ships to new crews arrive at the station four times a year.
    Operations are perfected to the smallest detail.In the Mission Control Center
    controlling motion of the ship every moment, dozens of specialists is not
    taking his eyes off the monitor screens, watching the telemetry of the Union.
    And yet here today - a special excitement. Arrived at the station is not
    just a "Union" with the next crew to the ISS flew "Yuri Gagarin".

    The proper name of a manned spacecraft launched from Baikonur on April 5, was
    the first time. The Russian space industry is not a tradition to name ships,
    such as in Europe, USA or Japan. And no wonder - Russia launches to the ISS 4
    "Union" and 5 "Progress vehicles a year. It's more than all the other partners
    combined.

    But in the Year of the Russian space for the Soyuz TMA-21 ", the launch is
    timed to the anniversary of the first manned flight, made an exception. On
    the ship - a portrait of Yuri. Gagarin was back on the Earth's orbit. And he
    will stay in space, not 108 minutes, and more than 170 days.

    Comparing these figures, we can see how far the development has stepped in
    50 years, manned space exploration. Huge orbital complex, lengthy expeditions,
    large-scale scientific problems ... And most importantly - international
    cooperation, unattainable in the distant 60's.

    When the open hatches between the Soyuz TMA-21 and ISS, to working on the
    station commander of the 27 th Expedition Dmitry Kondratyev, flight engineer
    Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli will join two astronauts Space Agency -
    Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko - and NASA astronaut Ronald Garan.
    Earth's orbit will be working three Russians, two Americans and an Italian.
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    Interestingly, all three Russian cosmonauts performed the first space flight.
    Kondratyev, Samokutyaev and Borysenko, 50 years after the landmark space
    mission of our compatriot represent their country in space.

    " We will thus face, which will embody the theme of this festival 12 April we
    will be on the ISS, we have it planned several conferences, held a teleconference
    with TsUPami partners in the ISS program. Something is planned to publicize
    the holiday with children from different countries. And we should understand
    that for us it will be very exciting ... "- told in a preflight interview to the
    press service of Russian Federal Space Agency spacecraft commander "Gagarin"
    Alexander Samokutyaev.

    The commander of the International Space Station Dmitri Kondratiev in conversation
    with the press service of Russian Federal Space Agency said that the astronauts are
    on the "front line" in this moment - a great honor and responsibility.

    " It is important to level the bar, given the flight of Gagarin, the first exit into
    space Leonov, the creation of the first space station, support. We have always been
    a leader in space exploration, and this status should remain.

    Gagarin's flight - this is the beginning not only of a large segment of manned space
    exploration in our country, but around the world. Big step for mankind as a whole.
    Gagarin is now not even an idol, a symbol of the beginning of a new era. This, I believe,
    correctly and fairly. Gagarin's name - the symbol of the conquest of space, a symbol
    of that dream of flying hundreds of generations to our planet, the excesses are real,
    achievable. And we see it now, it is very important "- said Dmitry Kondratyev.

    At the same time, said Dmitri, the Day of Astronautics honor to not only astronauts but
    also the people that make human spaceflight implemented today." The astronaut in orbit
    is the tip of a very large pyramid. Russian space industry employs tens of thousands of
    people, a large number of factories, research institutions and other structures that are
    the foundation for ensuring the implementation of space flight and the astronaut is at
    the forefront of all processes ", - said the commander of the ISS.

    Press Service of the Russian Space Agency
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    Post  Aramonik Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:56 pm

    ISS international crew receives newcomers with open arms


    KOROLEV (Moscow region), April 7 (Itar-Tass) - Inhabitants of the International
    Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency
    (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, who have
    been working in orbit together for more than three weeks, with open arms greeted
    their colleagues of the next long-term expedition that arrived on the
    Soyuz spaceship.

    After the hatches of the Soyuz TMA-21 (Gagarin) ship that docked to ISS opened,
    commander - Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyayev was the first to enter, Andrei
    Borisenko was the second NASA astronaut Ronald Garan was the last to leave
    the Soyuz.

    Immediately after the reunion in orbit the ISS combined crew received congratulations
    on the successful docking from Earth - from the leadership of the Russian, American
    and European space programmes, as well as from relatives.

    “The crew working at the station and the astronauts that have arrived feel well,”
    Director of the Institute of Medico-Biological Problems of the Russian Academy
    of Sciences (RAS) Igor Ushakov said. According to him, the crew of the arrived
    Soyuz spacecraft “has a very good psychological atmosphere.”
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    New Crew on This Week@NASA


    Gagarin through the eyes of those who knew him
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    Post  Aramonik Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:38 am

    April 12 officially named the International Day of Manned Space Flight.

    The corresponding resolution was adopted April 7, 2011 the UN General Assembly.
    The draft resolution was proposed by the delegation of the Russian Federation,
    the drafting of the document was attended by more than 60 states.

    The first manned space flight took place 50 years ago. 12 April 1961 Soviet Cosmonaut
    Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute flight aboard the Vostok-1 ", opening space for
    future flights and research. From now on the International Day of manned space
    flight will be celebrated annually at the international level to mark the beginning
    of the space era for mankind.
    50 Years of Humans in Space

    ESA pays tribute to five decades of human spaceflight with a video from the European
    Astronaut Centre remembering the historic flight of 12 April 1961.

    Yuri Gagarin was the first to see Earth from space and his legacy has motivated many
    young people to follow careers in science and engineering - and to become astronauts.

    More information: www.esa.int/Gagarin

    Bravo Yuri!!!! RIP Comrade. yes sir
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    Post  Aramonik Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:19 pm

    Vostok 1 - 1st Man Rated Spacecraft in History

    The Vostok 1 spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961. The flight took
    Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union (Russia), into space.
    The flight marked the first time that a human entered outer space, as
    well as the first orbital flight of a manned vehicle. The entire mission
    was controlled by either automatic systems, or by ground control. The
    spaceflight consisted of a single orbit of the Earth. According to
    official records, the spaceflight took 108 minutes from launch to landing.

    History was turned into a Heritage

    Documentary film "The story was turned into a Heritage Museum tells the
    story of the Baikonur cosmodrome and the history of establishing the
    domestic space.
    Studio Roskosmos- TV Front Space Center in the South." Baikonur.
    (2011).
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    Post  Aramonik Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:06 am

    First Orbit - The Movie (watch in 720p HD)

    A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in
    space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new
    footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer
    Philip Sheppard.
    For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org/
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    Post  Aramonik Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:04 am

    Yuri Gagarin: Flight to Glory, Flight to Death

    The first man in outer space was the Soviet Union's very own Yury Gagarin.
    On April 12, 1961 he managed a successful flight, which lasted for 108 minutes.
    Gagarin and his famous charming smile became the symbol of the USSR.
    On March 27, 1968 the star of Gagarin disappeared from the sky...
    Photos of the day from the commander of the ISS Dmitri Kondratiev:
    "Officers of the Air Forces of the Russian Federation on
    the International Space Station

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    Gagarin's Golden Anniversary Celebration at the Grand Kremlin Palace

    The Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow was the scene of a concert and other
    activities paying tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in
    space. Gagarin's historic launch took place 50 years ago on April 12,
    1961. Russian and American space officials and other dignitaries were
    on hand for the event.
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    Post  Aramonik Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:33 pm

    TGC Progress M-10M. Work in the MIK.

    At the Baikonur Cosmodrome continues intense preparations for the launch
    cargo transport ship Progress M-10M. " Today in the assembly and testing
    facility site 254 spaceport place setting ("knurling") on a cargo ship
    fairing.
    In the assembly and testing facility site 112 spaceport calculations Samara
    TsSKB-Progress and branch FGUP TsENKI - Space Center of the South "perform
    relaying a" package "of the launch vehicle (joined first and second stages)
    from the workplace on the transport-installation unit.
    Space rocket Soyuz-U "with a cargo transport ship Progress M-10M" is
    scheduled for 17.05 MSK April 27, 2011.

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