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Does the depiction of water blobs in the Salut-7 movie reflect an actual event?
In the beginning of the very cool Veritassium video The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained, the host Derek Muller says:
In 1985, cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov was tasked with saving ...
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Were Soviet missions to Skylab ever considered?
The question How was Skylab's orbit inclination chosen? gave some rationale as to why Skylab was in such a high inclination (close to today's ISS at 51.6).
Was there ever consideration (during and ...
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What radio frequencies were used by the Soviet space program circa 1961? ("Lost Cosmonaut" recording)
The recent Joe Scott video The Mysterious "Lost Cosmonaut" Recording | Random Thursday describes radio recording said to have been made by the Judica Cordiglia brothers from Italy in the early 1960's.
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How was the cosmonaut of the Soviet moon mission supposed to get back in the return vehicle?
In the Soviet Moon mission, for which the ill fated N-1 launcher was built, we know that the cosmonaut responsible for landing on the moon was to transfer from the equivalent of the command module to ...
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What "fuel more powerful than anything the West (had) in stock" put Laika in orbit aboard Sputnik 2?
The BBC World Service Radio Witness History podcast Laika, the first dog in space contains a short audio clips from some vintage 1950's British news. At 02:30 in a ...
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Luna 15 - Any official confirmation of objectives?
Russia's Luna 15 crashed into the lunar surface shortly after Apollo 11 landed.
It's widely considered a failed sample return mission, but did Russia ever officially announce that sample return was ...
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Was the Soviet N1 really capable of sending 9.6 GB/s of telemetry?
On the Wikipedia page for Soviet N1, it says of the control system:
The telemetry system relayed data back at an estimated rate of 9.6
gigabytes per second on 320,000 channels on 14 frequencies. ...
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Did the Soviet Union put an unmanned satellite in "very low orbit"above the Kármán line which used aerodynamic attitude control?
This interesting, archived page https://www.webcitation.org/618QHms8h?url=http://www.fai.org/astronautics/100km.asp which I found in this answer, says:
Later in the same decade (or very early in ...
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In what ways did the Soviet Union "observe the Apollo Moon landings closely"?
@DarkDust's comment says:
If the USSR had had just a tiny amount of doubt whether the landings were faked, they would have used that for propaganda. Loudly! They observed the landings closely and ...
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Was the R-7 the first two stage rocket of the Soviet Union?
The first US two stage rocket was bumper, a combination of a german V2 liquid fuel rocket with an US second stage.
The Soviet Union had the R-1 and R-2 based on the V-2.
In this list, the R-7 is ...
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Did TASS officially name the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1950's instead of 1961?
Just read this wiki article on Tyura-tam, the actual location of the Cosmodrome. It says:
In the mid 1950s, the Soviet Union announced that space activities were being conducted from the Baykonur ...
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What budgetary and technical impact did the N1 program's failure have on the Soviet Union's space program?
After the failure of the N1 program, what impact did this have on the budget for the space program of the Soviet Union?
What technical impacts did it have? For example, did other missions suffer ...
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What caused the N1 to become a failure?
What were key factors that made the N1 the recipe for disaster it became for the USSR? Especially when the USSR was the Space King at the time?
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Is there any truth to the claims of cosmonauts lost in space?
I've heard that during the space race era, many of the Soviet cosmonauts were lost in space. Or at least, such were the claims of some. So I wonder, is there any truth in these claims, or was that ...
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