KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD (EurasiaNet Photo Essay, 2002)

I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from Baykonur.
Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's happening
more
often these years!!) that somebody else had already posted it.

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com


KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD
A by Jonas Bendiksen
Text by Laara Matsen

Posted April 19, 2002 © Eurasianet

http://www.eurasianet.org/department...av041902.shtml

Jim Oberg wrote:

I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from Baykonur.
Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's happening
more
often these years!!) that somebody else had already posted it.



Photos # 3-4 I knew there had to be a lot of R-7 strap-on boosters lying
around out there somewhere.
What the hell is photo # 11 about? Did the cattle get too near some
Proton fuel, or were they shot for counterrevolutionary sympathies?

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Jim Oberg wrote:

I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from
Baykonur.
Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's
happening
more
often these years!!) that somebody else had already posted it.



Photos # 3-4 I knew there had to be a lot of R-7 strap-on boosters
lying
around out there somewhere.
What the hell is photo # 11 about? Did the cattle get too near some
Proton fuel, or were they shot for counterrevolutionary sympathies?

Pat

Those are the cows that jumped over the moon, but their parachutes
failed.

[8*

Rusty

Pat Flannery wrote:

What the hell is photo # 11 about? Did the cattle get too near some
Proton fuel, or were they shot for counterrevolutionary sympathies?


Isn't it obvious?

"The tank that fell and killed these poor animals had just been removed
when this picture was taken. You must pay me for six head of cattle!"

Training the cattle to lie down on command with the appropriate spacing
to match an R-7 booster was so difficult that cattle retraining costs
were the real reason for canceling Energia...

--
Reed Snellenberger
GPG KeyID: 5A978843
rsnellenberger-at-houston.rr.com

Rusty wrote:

What the hell is photo # 11 about? Did the cattle get too near some
Proton fuel, or were they shot for counterrevolutionary sympathies?





Those are the cows that jumped over the moon, but their parachutes
failed.





You know what that makes them, don't you? These are the Soviet Lost
Cowanauts! ;-)

Pat

Reed Snellenberger wrote:


Isn't it obvious?

"The tank that fell and killed these poor animals had just been
removed when this picture was taken. You must pay me for six head of
cattle!"

Training the cattle to lie down on command with the appropriate
spacing to match an R-7 booster was so difficult that cattle
retraining costs were the real reason for canceling Energia...


Oddly enough, that was the first thought that occurred to me also...
would a Kazak rancher pull something like this?
Nah, they are honest as the day is long... at Murmansk on the Winter
Solstice. :-)

Pat

"Rusty" wrote
Those are the cows that jumped over the moon, but their parachutes
failed.

They were on the circumlunar rocket.


It was the herd shot 'round the Moon.


You set me up for this.

Jim Oberg wrote:

It was the herd shot 'round the Moon.




That's a bunch of bullshot. Gerald Bullshot that is. ;-)

Barbicane
The Baltimore Gun Club

Rusty wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Jim Oberg wrote:

I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from
Baykonur.
Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's
happening
more
often these years!!) that somebody else had already posted it.



Photos # 3-4 I knew there had to be a lot of R-7 strap-on boosters
lying
around out there somewhere.
What the hell is photo # 11 about? Did the cattle get too near some
Proton fuel, or were they shot for counterrevolutionary sympathies?

Pat

Those are the cows that jumped over the moon, but their parachutes
failed.

[8*

Rusty

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the
moon. The little dog stood like a sentry, but alas the cow burned up on
re-entry.

Gene out.

Jim Oberg ) wrote:
: I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from Baykonur.
: Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's happening
: more
: often these years!!) that somebody else had already posted it.

: Jim O
: www.jamesoberg.com


: KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD
: A by Jonas Bendiksen
: Text by Laara Matsen

: Posted April 19, 2002 © Eurasianet

: http://www.eurasianet.org/department...av041902.shtml


I nominate photo 8 as "Kazakhstan Gothic".