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

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?

The real source of mad cow disease?

Eric

: Pat

Eric Chomko wrote:

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

The real source of mad cow disease?





AHA! I think you've discovered it!
And they are not alone in this problem:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02...orate_in_milk/


Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Photos # 3-4 I knew there had to be a lot of R-7 strap-on boosters
lying
around out there somewhere.

Nearly 6,800+ of the strap-on boosters over the
years (almost 1,700 launches), but the majority
of those out of Russia's Northern Cosmodrome.

The halfway decent condition of the booster in
this photo makes you wonder if the Korolev bureau
ever tried, at least experimentally, to recover
and reuse these things.

- Ed Kyle

Ed Kyle wrote:

The halfway decent condition of the booster in
this photo makes you wonder if the Korolev bureau
ever tried, at least experimentally, to recover
and reuse these things.


I was somewhat surprised to see the photo of the one with the motors
still on it- although most of the motor was fairly cheap metal, the
turbopumps and plumbing should have had some alloys in them that would
have scrap metal value.
Does anyone know what the catalyst is for the hydrogen peroxide
generator that drives the turbopumps? Sometimes silver is used, and that
would be certainly worth recovering.

Pat

"Ed Kyle" wrote
The halfway decent condition of the booster in
this photo makes you wonder if the Korolev bureau
ever tried, at least experimentally, to recover
and reuse these things.

Good thought -- and I've been told that teams in fact
do retrieve turbopump packages and other black boxes, for
refurbishment and reflight in new vehicles.

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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You know what that makes them, don't you? These are the Soviet Lost
Cowanauts! ;-)

Cowabunga, dude!

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:34:07 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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You know what that makes them, don't you? These are the Soviet Lost
Cowanauts! ;-)

Cowabunga, dude!


An udder disaster.


Rusty