Entering Voskhod 2

Lukas, my six year old son asked me yesterday, how the cosmonauts entered
the Voshkhod 2 spacecraft, when the inflatable airlock was in front
of the hatch. Was it constructed so they could enter through the
folded airlock or was the airlock bolted to the spacecraft after the
crew had entered?
As I had no definitve answer, I'll pass this question to you.

Harald

Harald Kucharek wrote:

Lukas, my six year old son asked me yesterday, how the cosmonauts entered
the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, when the inflatable airlock was in front
of the hatch. Was it constructed so they could enter through the
folded airlock or was the airlock bolted to the spacecraft after the
crew had entered?
As I had no definitive answer, I'll pass this question to you.


Having been driven half-mad ("half?" some here will say) by researching
Voskhod for my 1/24th scale model conversion of it from a Vostok, I can
explain this. You get in via a hatch on the far side of the spacecraft
from the side the airlock is on, basically the same hatch that you enter
a Vostok by, that sits in the cut-out in the jettisonable fairing over
the spacecraft. the main difference in the case of of the Voskhod is
that the crew's position is rotated ninety degrees from that of Vostok,
so that the parachute compartment is located over your head, as opposed
to sitting on your left-hand side:
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/porterc...jpccapsule.jpg ... is
a view through the entry hatch of a Voskhod. Externally Voskhod 1 was
almost a dead ringer for a Vostok, other than the back-up retro system
mounted on top of it. Voskhod 2's collapsible airlock sat under a bulge
in the jettisonable fairing, and I don't think it was accessible once
the rocket was on the pad.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote in message ...

[...]

Pat!? Was this really you? I can't believe the real Flannery
would miss the occasion to deliver one of his famous Soviet-
propaganda-movie-style speeches...

In doubt,

Harald

PS: But who else you a Thanks for the technically correct answer!

Harald Kucharek wrote:


Pat!? Was this really you? I can't believe the real Flannery
would miss the occasion to deliver one of his famous Soviet-
propaganda-movie-style speeches...

In doubt,

Harald


The thought did cross my mind...Comrade... but I thought it might embody
the spirit of adventurism; and that Trotskyite failing must never be
allowed to influence the smooth forward movement of Scientific
Socialism! Why, the fact that the Voskhod's entry technique was a
mystery for so long can be traced directly to Leonov's difficulty
re-entering the spacecraft... what would people think if Voskhod- unlike
the Soviet Union- were easy to get out of...but difficult to get back
into? Why, any sort of counterrevolutionary foolishness might have
arisen in the striving masses at news like that! Soon all the
constituent states in the Soviet Union would try to break free of it,
using as an excuse that they were merely on EVA, and had become too
puffed up and bloated be an influx of Yankee Dollars to return to its
safe confines in a timely manner! A firm pull on the "safety tether"
that is Soviet Communism would be required; such as applied to both
Hungary and Czechoslovakia when their foolish meandering about in the
Vacuum that is "Freedom" required that this tether, as strong as steel
itself, be pulled with great tractive force- such as is found at the
front end of a JS-III tank! Like the remedial "Choke Collar" that keeps
the foolish puppy that is the Newly-Marxist State in good behavior while
it attempts to sniff at the rears of lax-living foreign powers, and hump
the leg of all the exotic political systems it encounters in its walk
around the global village (a walk that must be frequently taken as it
sheds Obsolete Political Dogma like so much DOG MAnure), these small
pups needed a little throttling before they would become a good and
steadfast aid in the hunt for Communism, freezing motionless as soon as
Capitalist Hooliganism was seen- their "Politburo Pointer" instincts
alerting their gentle master in which direction the gun needed to be
aimed to slay the Foul Fowl that is ever nibbling at the grain of
Marxist Agrarian Endeavor.
By the choke collar applied to the front end, and the rolled up copy of
Pravda applied to the back end, the too-excitible pup begins to learn
how to live like a dog.
One notes that Leonov was kept under careful camera surveillance while
outside the Voskhod...such as all Soviets must be when they leave the
confines of their nation, be it the THE LARGEST NATION ON THE FACE OF
THE EARTH, or a eight foot diameter chrome-steel ball bearing. Voskhod 1
was much better in this regard- not only did the crew's lack of
spacesuits assure that there would be no attempt to defect from the
interior of the capsule until it had returned, but the crew knew that
with three on board, one must almost certainly be a government
informant, as approximately 33% of the Soviet Populace performed this
vital function.



PS: But who else you a Thanks for the technically correct answer!


Under Capitalism, man exploits man; under Communism, just the reverse is
true!

Pat

Pat Flannery writes:

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One notes that Leonov was kept under careful camera surveillance while outside
the Voskhod...such as all Soviets must be when they leave the confines of their
nation, be it the THE LARGEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, or a eight foot
diameter chrome-steel ball bearing.

One also notes that Alexei "conveniently" lost one of those cameras on
his way back in, which makes one wonder what kind of extra-terrestrial
zero-G hijinx would have been recorded by its "accidently" blinded eye.

Chris Jones wrote in message ...
Pat Flannery writes:

[...]

One notes that Leonov was kept under careful camera surveillance while outside
the Voskhod...such as all Soviets must be when they leave the confines of their
nation, be it the THE LARGEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, or a eight foot
diameter chrome-steel ball bearing.

One also notes that Alexei "conveniently" lost one of those cameras on
his way back in, which makes one wonder what kind of extra-terrestrial
zero-G hijinx would have been recorded by its "accidently" blinded eye.

So what happened during Gemini 10 when Collins conveniently lost his
camera and Young only filmed the black void with his DAC?

Harald

In article , Chris Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery writes:

[...]

One notes that Leonov was kept under careful camera surveillance while outside
the Voskhod...such as all Soviets must be when they leave the confines of their
nation, be it the THE LARGEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, or a eight foot
diameter chrome-steel ball bearing.

One also notes that Alexei "conveniently" lost one of those cameras on
his way back in, which makes one wonder what kind of extra-terrestrial
zero-G hijinx would have been recorded by its "accidently" blinded eye.

Hey, it's not as if counter-revolutionary EVAs aren't unknown.

http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mireo12.htm

"Avdeyev and Solovyov moved the VDU to the work site and prepared the
Sofora girder on September 3. EVA duration was 3 hr, 56 min. On
September 7 the cosmonauts bent Sofora back on a hinge at one-third of
its length to make its top more accessible, and laid a control cable
along the girder. They also removed the remnants of the Soviet flag
placed on the mast during its assembly in 1991. It had been reduced to
shreds by UV degradation and orbital debris and meteoroid impacts."

--
-Andrew Gray

In article ,
(Harald Kucharek) wrote:

Lukas, my six year old son asked me yesterday, how the cosmonauts entered
the Voshkhod 2 spacecraft, when the inflatable airlock was in front
of the hatch...

He literally asked you that?

Damn, what a smart kid. Congratulations.

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He literally asked you that?

Damn, what a smart kid. Congratulations.

Kids ask all sorts of questions, constantly......

repeating all sorts constantly....

No doubt he asked this. Along with why is the sky blue, why is rain wet, and
etc etc etc...

Hallerb wrote:

Kids ask all sorts of questions, constantly......

repeating all sorts constantly....

No doubt he asked this. Along with why is the sky blue, why is rain wet, and



"Do we have any Polonium and Beryllium lying around?"

Pat