A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos

A tour group just returned from Baykonur
with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin
disaster site) photographs, plus some great
new view INSIDE the outdoor-parked Buran.

See
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.




Reconstruction work appears to have started on the
collapsed roof of the Buran/Energiya hangar, bldg 112:

Look at the right roof edge, where it's being repaired:
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_061.jpg

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:41:56 +0000, Jim Oberg wrote:

A tour group just returned from Baykonur with some routine launch pad
(and Nedelin disaster site) photographs, plus some great new view INSIDE
the outdoor-parked Buran.

See
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.

How to watch a launch up close and personal.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...s/Img_040.html
Where you can feel it as well as see and hear it. I wish NASA had a
viewing area a mile or so from the pad, where people could build their own
bunkers to get an up close and personal view of a Shuttle Launch.
Environmentally friendly bunkers, of course, as it is a wildlife refuge.

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In article ,
Craig Fink wrote:
Where you can feel it as well as see and hear it. I wish NASA had a
viewing area a mile or so from the pad, where people could build their own
bunkers to get an up close and personal view of a Shuttle Launch.
Environmentally friendly bunkers, of course, as it is a wildlife refuge.

Unless things have changed -- my info is old -- the Foreward Fireman Team
(the descendant of the Apollo-era Astronaut Rescue Team) is about a mile
from the pad, in armored personnel carriers. Apparently they have
occasionally accommodated a guest, although considerable political pull
(and preferably military firefighting training) is required to arrange it.
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Jim Oberg wrote:

See
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.





Is this the missile silo explosion site?
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_053.jpg
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_054.jpg

Pat

This is the photo bunker next to Pad 41 where Nedelin and the others died.


"Craig Fink" wrote
How to watch a launch up close and personal.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...s/Img_040.html
Where you can feel it as well as see and hear it. I wish NASA had a
viewing area a mile or so from the pad, where people could build their own
bunkers to get an up close and personal view of a Shuttle Launch.
Environmentally friendly bunkers, of course, as it is a wildlife refuge.

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

Jim Oberg wrote:


A tour group just returned from Baykonur
with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin
disaster site) photographs, plus some great
new view INSIDE the outdoor-parked Buran.

See

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.

It actually says "Buran prototype" and it's hard to say how close it is to
the real thing. Some parts of its hardware are definitely not flight
worthy, such as those ugly stand-offs on the back.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...s/Img_018.html

Cheers,
D~


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Jim Oberg wrote:
A tour group just returned from Baykonur
with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin
disaster site) photographs, plus some great
new view INSIDE the outdoor-parked Buran.

See
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.



Wow. That cockpit looks familiar...

-A.L.

lol, a bit too close, or not built well enough.

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:29:25 +0000, Jim Oberg wrote:

This is the photo bunker next to Pad 41 where Nedelin and the others died.


"Craig Fink" wrote
How to watch a launch up close and personal.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...s/Img_040.html
Where you can feel it as well as see and hear it. I wish NASA had a
viewing area a mile or so from the pad, where people could build their own
bunkers to get an up close and personal view of a Shuttle Launch.
Environmentally friendly bunkers, of course, as it is a wildlife refuge.

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

Jim Oberg wrote:
A tour group just returned from Baykonur
with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin
disaster site) photographs, plus some great
new view INSIDE the outdoor-parked Buran.

See
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html.

Reconstruction work appears to have started on the
collapsed roof of the Buran/Energiya hangar, bldg 112:

Look at the right roof edge, where it's being repaired:
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_061.jpg

Interesting. But why?

- Ed Kyle

It's where a new roof sill is under construction.

"Ed Kyle" wrote
Look at the right roof edge, where it's being repaired:
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_061.jpg

Interesting. But why?

- Ed Kyle