Entering Voskhod 2

(Mike Flugennock) wrote in message ...
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(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?

Yep. Some time ago, he asked why there is no sonic boom as light
travels at a speed faster than the speed of sound through the air...
Or why the earth is rotating but he doesn't feels any vertigo... Or
why Mercury and Venus don't have moons...

Last year, in a museum he saw a B-17 ball turret on display, hanging
down from the ceiling: "Daddy, why do they exhibit the pod from "2001"
here?"

Damn, what a smart kid. Congratulations.

Thanks. Currently, he is pretty much focused on Mars (I love
the ways he says "Opportunity") but also often wants to discuss
the Saturn-Apollo abort modes and their rationales with me.
His favourite picture book is "Virtual Apollo" and he asks
every now and then for "Virtual LM"...

But smartness can also be a problem. One day, when he played
with his LEGO spacecrafts all over the flat, I asked him to
stay in his room, as I was a little bit tired. What did he say?
"Daddy, you always tell me that space is very, very, very big,
and so my room isn't big enough for playing spaceflight only there!"

Here's the little geek in his space-corner:
http://lhvcc.com/egiftshop/satv20/sa...er/harald.html

Harald

Harald Kucharek wrote:

Here's the little geek in his space-corner:
http://lhvcc.com/egiftshop/satv20/sa...er/harald.html




Hey! HIS Saturns are bigger than MY Saturns! :'(

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.

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Hety if anyone hasnt killfiled you.

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Pat Flannery wrote in message ...
Harald Kucharek wrote:

Here's the little geek in his space-corner:
http://lhvcc.com/egiftshop/satv20/sa...er/harald.html




Hey! HIS Saturns are bigger than MY Saturns! :'(

Or he is smaller than you. Another possibillity...

But go to http://lhvcc.com/egiftshop/ and do it yourself.
The plans are for 1:96 scale, but if you have access to the
appropriate printer and print on the right cardboard, you
may end up with a 1:48 or 1:24 Saturn V... ;-)

Harald

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

(Harald Kucharek) writes:

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?

Questions, so many questions. It's almost as if the same people our
countries trusted with multi-million dollar flying machines couldn't be
trusted to operate a camera correctly. John Young later tripped over
the heat-flow cable on the moon, ruining THAT multi-million dollar piece
of equipment. One shudders to think of what might have happened if
Collins had had a bad day in lunar orbit left alone with the CSM, or
Leonov had been entrusted to bring Soyuz and Apollo together. I tell
ya, it's one close call after another...

Harald Kucharek wrote:



Hey! HIS Saturns are bigger than MY Saturns! :'(



Or he is smaller than you. Another possibillity...


That would make him about 30 inches in height...this explains _a lot_
regarding his questions- your real son has been kidnapped; this is none
other than DR. MIGUELITO LOVELESS in disguise, once again plotting a
nefarious end for James West and Artemus Gordon!



But go to http://lhvcc.com/egiftshop/ and do it yourself.
The plans are for 1:96 scale, but if you have access to the
appropriate printer and print on the right cardboard, you
may end up with a 1:48 or 1:24 Saturn V... ;-)


Well, I do have that Monogram 1/32 scale CSM model.....

Pat

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

Andrew Gray wrote:

"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."

Oh, I've got to add that to my model of Mir!

Pat