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[GLS]

Happier days in the Russian/Soviet space program... well, maybe not happier, but certainly more active

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044007796505526501

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044008037757682017

Link to all photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10k2JS2G6QghJ7LwJnKjaKsSsCFxcSzGO?usp=drive_link

 

[GLS]

More goodies from the archives

https://twitter.com/x/status/2045875709650833913

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zvvtr728eEML1QsUbHg2fpbV7VPTuSzb/view?usp=sharing

 

[JDat]

More goodies from the archives

https://twitter.com/x/status/2045875709650833913

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zvvtr728eEML1QsUbHg2fpbV7VPTuSzb/view?usp=sharing

Is 1st Book also available?

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047630467931734524

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049938165209645286

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049938784356086029

 

[dennis.krenz]

100% Zenit compatible.

(No joke. Ground interfaces of the Soyuz-5 are the same as on the Zenit, by decade-long design)

 

[Notebook]

Looks like it launched the world's largest Rubik Cube, and the simplest.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049975878373851387

 

[Astronautical achievement]

I wish they would rename it to Zenit 4. Because it is basically an upgraded Zenit, just with a different 2nd stage. A Soyuz, to me, will always be R-7 derived. I mean I get the controversy around naming it after a family of Ukranian built rockets, but there's no way a Soyuz should be powered by an RD-171 MV

 

[dennis.krenz]

I wish they would rename it to Zenit 4. Because it is basically an upgraded Zenit, just with a different 2nd stage. A Soyuz, to me, will always be R-7 derived. I mean I get the controversy around naming it after a family of Ukranian built rockets, but there's no way a Soyuz should be powered by an RD-171 MV

Imagine how it must have felt like having an US Atlas launcher getting powered by a RD-180.

 

[DaveS]

Imagine how it must have felt like having an US Atlas launcher getting powered by a RD-180.

First time that happened was on May 24 2000 when the first Atlas III launched from SLC-36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The Atlas III served as a bridge between the Atlas II and the oncoming Atlas V EELV.