Project Mir station complex / UR-500 family

winner in the nomination of the most ugly ship

Those landlubbers really have a weird taste about the beauty of a ship.

Thats a ship only its mother could love:

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Those landlubbers really have a weird taste about the beauty of a ship.

Thats a ship only its mother could love:

USS_Long_Beach_%28CGN-9%29_underway_off_Oahu_on_9_May_1973.jpg
Ah, yes, the Long Beach, her 'mother' was Enterprise, had the same island configuration with the SCANFAR system when I was aboard 'Big E', later changed from vacuum tubes to solid state, saved 20 tons weight, then replaced by a better system. Pilots hated the SCANFAR island as it caused undue turbulence in the airstream during final approach.
 
Mi-8 for north (since in the film The Thing 1982 the Russians were replaced by the Norwegians, such a helicopter was supposed to hunt for the dog)
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Here's a small auxiliary addon which you may use to locate launchpads in Plesetsk and Vostochny - in the file I attached (unpack it to Config/Earth/Marker) you'll find exact coordinates which I determined by Google Maps, Encyclopaedia Astronautica and so on. Enable it in the Planetarium Mode as it is in the 1st screenshot:

;Plesetsk;
+40.695833 +62.957222 : LC-16/2 : (Molniya)
+40.786667 +62.906389 : LC-32/1 : (Tsyklon-3)
+40.574897 +62.927319 : LC-32/2 : (Tsyklon-3)
+40.466944 +62.931389 : LC-35/1 : (Angara)
+40.529 +62.92 : LC-41/1 : (R-7)
+40.450 +62.927 : LC-43/3 : (R-7)
+40.456689 +62.928791 : LC-43/4 : (R-7)
+40.694 +62.910 : LC-131/1 : (Kosmos-3M)
+40.869 +62.883 : LC-132/1 : (Kosmos-3)
+40.872 +62.883 : LC-132/2 : (Kosmos-3)
+40.847 +62.887 : LC-133/1 : (Kosmos-2I)
+40.850 +62.887 : LC-133/3 : (Kosmos-3M, Rokot)
+41.547953 +63.008379 : LC-167 : (Topol)
+41.554723 +63.008509 : LC-168 : (Topol)

;Vostochny;
+128.357222 +51.869444 : LC-1A : (Angara)
+128.332778 +51.882778 : LC-1S : (Soyuz-2)

23.01.12 19-00-54 Plesetsk.jpg

23.01.12 18-57-17 Earth.jpg

Later I'll develop it into a full scale addon containing locations of launchpads in other spaceports (including Baikonur etc.)
 

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