Mars Pathfinder - 20th Anniversary Special
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There's a Youtube channel called Exploring The Unbeaten Path, and their latest video has something fascinating for those of us interested in the Soviet/Russian side of space history. Getting into - read: breaking into 
- a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where two shuttle orbiters from the Buran programme reside.
One of the orbiters is OK-1K2 or 'Ptichka' - the second flight-spec shuttle built in the Buran programme, it was about 95-97% complete when the programme was officially canned in '93. The other is probably OK-4M, an engineering mock-up built for testing things like mating orbiters to the Energia launch vehicle. I'd seen photos from inside this hangar a while back, but it's even more fascinating as a video.
- a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where two shuttle orbiters from the Buran programme reside.One of the orbiters is OK-1K2 or 'Ptichka' - the second flight-spec shuttle built in the Buran programme, it was about 95-97% complete when the programme was officially canned in '93. The other is probably OK-4M, an engineering mock-up built for testing things like mating orbiters to the Energia launch vehicle. I'd seen photos from inside this hangar a while back, but it's even more fascinating as a video.
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NASA Armstrong Center have updated their YouTube channel with a lot of really interesting research videos. 500 are planned to be uploaded in the next few days apparently
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrydenTV/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrydenTV/videos
ISS 360s added to Google maps, better than the ESA one last year.
Includes Beam, dragon and cygus although i dont think you can enter Cygnus.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.560...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s88o1ChROflsAAAQvxgg3Yg!2e0
Points for the funniest / weirdest spot.
Includes Beam, dragon and cygus although i dont think you can enter Cygnus.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.560...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s88o1ChROflsAAAQvxgg3Yg!2e0
Points for the funniest / weirdest spot.
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RS-25 Rocket Engine Fires Up Again:
Assembly of the Soyuz-FG rocket at Baikonur cosmodrome:
The main unit with the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft was docked to the third stage of the launch vehicle.
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) will launch at 16:41 BST (11:41 EDT) on July 28.
Live coverage will be on NASA TV,
Assembly of the Soyuz-FG rocket at Baikonur cosmodrome:
The main unit with the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft was docked to the third stage of the launch vehicle.
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) will launch at 16:41 BST (11:41 EDT) on July 28.
Live coverage will be on NASA TV,
Expedition 52-53 Soyuz rollout:
Away we go:
This week:
Home arrival:
hes been the official rss feed of several threads for a long time
heads up crs12 spacex launch at 17:31 our time, 80% chance of favourable weather. Stream usually starts about 20mins before hand.
about time it seems ages since a spacex launch, and another daytime landing, hopefully we will see that flip again.
If there is a launch the next time we come we will definitely try to get tickets to see it from Kennedy, or maybe even the 3 mile seats.
And here's what it actually looks like more coming soon.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYIPmEFAIIn/
Looks both smart and sci-fi movie like, especially with that helmet design. This is a flight suit not Eva suit. So compare it to the blue Boeing flight suit or NASA pumpkin flight suit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYIPmEFAIIn/
Looks both smart and sci-fi movie like, especially with that helmet design. This is a flight suit not Eva suit. So compare it to the blue Boeing flight suit or NASA pumpkin flight suit.
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Soldato
Been snorkelling in sunny sunny Portugal.