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The return of Zarya?
Back in the good ol' days of Soviet space exploration, the Russians
designed a "Super Soyuz" named Zarya: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/zarya.htm Now they've announced work has started on a six person crewed "Super Soyuz" again: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...spacecraft.ap/ ...and the description sounds a lot like Zarya. Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote:
Back in the good ol' days of Soviet space exploration, the Russians designed a "Super Soyuz" named Zarya: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/zarya.htm Can't they come up with a new name? Does *everything* have to be called "Zarya" (sunrise)? Roger -- Roger Balettie former Flight Dynamics Officer Space Shuttle Mission Control http://www.balettie.com/ |
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"Roger Balettie" wrote
Can't they come up with a new name? Does *everything* have to be called "Zarya" (sunrise)? Well, there's Molniya and Granit... (Old Cold War joke about the restricted namespace of Soviet programs.) |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Back in the good ol' days of Soviet space exploration, the Russians designed a "Super Soyuz" named Zarya: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/zarya.htm Now they've announced work has started on a six person crewed "Super Soyuz" again: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...spacecraft.ap/ ..and the description sounds a lot like Zarya. Yep. And they are working on a Mars mission, and a spaceplane, and MIR 2, and nuclear reactors for space... D. -- The STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ can be found at the following URLs: Text-Only Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html Enhanced HTML Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html Corrections, comments, and additions should be e-mailed to , as well as posted to sci.space.history and sci.space.shuttle for discussion. |
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"Allen Thomson"
Well, there's Molniya and Granit... Heh heh...I was gonna suggest "Molniya". (Lightning) |
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Allen Thomson wrote:
"Roger Balettie" wrote Can't they come up with a new name? Does *everything* have to be called "Zarya" (sunrise)? Well, there's Molniya and Granit... (Old Cold War joke about the restricted namespace of Soviet programs.) And on this side, there have been two Viking projects, two Voyagers, and I think the Telstars in geosynch orbit are unrelated to the original Telstars, but I'm not certain. The Delta-IV and Atlas boosters don't have much in common with the original Thor/Vanguard and Atlas ICBM boosters. We've had two individual spacecraft named Columbia and two Challengers. There's also the upcoming launch of Gravity Probe B. --Bill Thompson |
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In message , William R. Thompson
writes Allen Thomson wrote: "Roger Balettie" wrote Can't they come up with a new name? Does *everything* have to be called "Zarya" (sunrise)? Well, there's Molniya and Granit... (Old Cold War joke about the restricted namespace of Soviet programs.) And on this side, there have been two Viking projects, two Voyagers, and I think the Telstars in geosynch orbit are unrelated to the original Telstars, but I'm not certain. The Delta-IV and Atlas boosters don't have much in common with the original Thor/Vanguard and Atlas ICBM boosters. We've had two individual spacecraft named Columbia and two Challengers. There's also the upcoming launch of Gravity Probe B. There have been two Beagles aimed at Mars, and the second try actually got off the ground :-) -- Save the Hubble Space Telescope! Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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Derek Lyons wrote: Yep. And they are working on a Mars mission, and a spaceplane, and MIR 2, and nuclear reactors for space... Do I denote a slight hint of skepticism in your judgment of their present technical prowess? Okay, so maybe their recent SLBM launches didn't go all that well.... with one stuck halfway out of the tube; one canceled; and the third going completely out of control shortly after launch.... ;-) Pat |
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On 2004-02-21, William R. Thompson wrote:
We've had two individual spacecraft named Columbia and two Challengers. And two Endeavour's Iain |
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