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former child intern at fiftyonepointsix.com chief sommelier of @buranarchive.space photo archive at buranarchive.space

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maks @buran.space · Dec 11

Looking for hard copies of the following books. Reply or DM if you have one for sale or know smne who does!

"Triumf i tragediya Energii" (tom 3) Gubanov '98
"Rakety-nositeli. Kosmodromy" Umanskiy '01
"Nezabyvaemye Kosmicheskie Programmy" ed. Kirilin '13
"Put k Energii" Filin '01

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Columbus in 1993

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Lovely view of the ESA biconic crew vehicle

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It's at Freedom of course, but that's the caption

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Hermes at the Columbus space station

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maks @buran.space · 8d

alternative version of the Soyuz TM-16 photo

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maks @buran.space · 13d

better than before, but still hoping for more announcements to bend the trendline down

maks @buran.space · 13d

TIL: the same titanium nickelide shape memory alloy in sleeves used to fasten togather segments of the Sofora truss and extend the Rapana girder on Mir is what the wire in modern dental braces is made of

maks @buran.space · 19d

Bendy Freedom

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Shuttle-C: The Future Is Now!

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 20d

Lots of document scans on early Buran, Energia, OK-92, OS-120 and the RLA family assembled in order as the individual pages trickle out from Roscosmos and RGANTD. Slowly working on adding the translated text in the descriptions.

Check it out!

buranarchive.space/index?/categ...

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maks @buran.space · 21d

I found some footage of the tripropellant preburner demonstrator hot fire test from the Aerojet-CADB (KBKhA) RD-0120 program.

The article also includes this video as well.

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maks @buran.space · 21d

Updated with some new images.

fiftyonepointsix.com/zarya-the-su...

Zarya — the Super-Soyuz that only lived twice

In the late 1980s, with the development of the first modules of Mir nearing its end and their launches on the horizon, NPO Energia started…

fiftyonepointsix.com

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maks @buran.space · 22d

nice illustration of the CTV on Ariane 5

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maks @buran.space · 23d

and progressssseeesss

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maks @buran.space · 23d

~1994 International Space Station with a Progress-M2 docked to Zvezda aft.

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maks @buran.space · 24d

fgb in a precarious position

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fgb spin

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 25d

The Buran orbiter mothballed in the Orbiter Assembly and Test Facility (MIK OK) at site 254 in Baikonur in 1997; around a year before it was stacked with an Energia test article in MIK RN.

MIK OK (MIK 254) is currently the Soyuz spacecraft pre-flight processing facility.

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maks @buran.space · 25d

and of course nick has a better version
bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · Feb 20

Here's a clip showing Soviet moon suit testing, and testing of the lander "hold down jets" to stop the lander bouncing.

Note the clever way they simulate lunar gravity with ropes and a slope!