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The Russain Right Stuff
Just getting around to converting some old VHS to DVD. Quality is
suffering a tad but its nice to be able to see these again. Found a bunch of the original TDC "Wings" (P47 B36 B57 F111 F4etc) B29 Frozen in Time. My fave is "the Russian Right Stuff" WGBH Nova broadcast 3 shows back in 1991 (thats 18 years and the tape was still veiwable). With the Fall of the empire just around the corner the Soviets were pretty open, although still kept some stuff close to the vest. What was intriguing was a clip showing a test faring seperation for the Voskhod 1 flight. Fairing seperates than squibs blow off the mockup of the airlock. got me wondering, In case of a launch abort what were the crews options, no ejection seats, no tower (Was the last stage powerful enough to boost them away during the launch phase?) Or what the options like the second Voskhod, none. (PS, eat your heart out guys its off to Pima Air museum this weekend wooooooooooowoooooooooo............Doc |
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Dr.Colon Oscopy wrote:
Fairing seperates than squibs blow off the mockup of the airlock. got me wondering, In case of a launch abort what were the crews options, no ejection seats, no tower (Was the last stage powerful enough to boost them away during the launch phase?) Or what the options like the second Voskhod, none. (PS, eat your heart out guys its off to Pima Air museum this weekend The options were that you get your ashes buried in the Kremlin wall before or after winning a medal. ;-) I once saw a painting of a Vostok separating from its upper stage by using its retro-rocket, but I don't know if that was some sort of error by the artist. AFAIK, until Voskhod separated from its upper stage, you were along for the ride, no matter where it ended up. Pat |
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Dr.Colon Oscopy wrote:
So the faring tests must have been for one or two reasons 1. Unlikely slow burn event on the pad prior to launch to give them some chance. Zero chance if it blew on the pad - unlike Vostok, their would have been no way whatsoever to get out of it; even Vostok's rocket-powered ejection seat was pretty iffy in that case. 2 To make sure the squibs worked :-O.........Doc They did a lot of fairing jettison tests on all of their spacecraft to make sure the two halves peeled off correctly at jettisoning. One thing that did apparently concern them was how the big asymmetrical bulge on the side of Voskhod II fairing was going to affect the booster's trajectory during ascent, as many years back someone found photos of a Voskhod booster with black-and-white tracking markings on it and posted them to the newsgroup... this was something virtually unknown in any Soviet manned booster. The full-scale mock-up tests of the giant clamshell fairing on the N-1 jettisoning is really something to see, as a thing around the size of a S-IVB with attached LM fairing and CSM atop it splits in half and falls to the ground. I don't even want to think how much that thing weighed. Pat Pat |
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