Amusing 1960's magazine articles about Soviet spacecraft

What we know about Vostok...and it's almost all wrong:
http://books.google.com/books?id=B-M... vostok&f=true
....250-foot-long Soviet Moon lander well make Apollo/LM look like a wimp.

How Vostoks will dock; tail-to-tail and after extending their ejection
seats:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DU4...=Vostok&f=true
Why leave the hatches attached to the seats? Why a separate entry hatch?
Cover is by Bruce McCall, who will do the famous 2001 poster:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DU4...=Vostok&f=true

Voskhod 1 is pretty roomy inside, going by the illustrations:
http://books.google.com/books?id=x0g...voskhod&f=true
Real thing was like three sardines in a can.

Pat

On 5/6/2011 1:09 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:

Why leave the hatches attached to the seats? Why a separate entry hatch?

Ah-ha! Two-man crew and _two_ side-by-side ejection seats!
Although Voskhod came before it and they docked nose-to-nose, that isn't
too far from how the crew exchange via EVA was done on Soyuz 4-5.

Pat

On May 6, 5:09*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
What we know about Vostok...and it's almost all wrong:http://books.google..com/books?id=B-...dq=vostok&pg=P...
...250-foot-long Soviet Moon lander well make Apollo/LM look like a wimp.

How Vostoks will dock; tail-to-tail and after extending their ejection
seats:http://books.google.com/books?id=DU4...dq=Vostok&pg=P...
Why leave the hatches attached to the seats? Why a separate entry hatch?
Cover is by Bruce McCall, who will do the famous 2001 poster:http://books..google.com/books?id=DU...dq=Vostok&pg=P...

Voskhod 1 is pretty roomy inside, going by the illustrations:http://books..google.com/books?id=x0...IA4&dq=voskhod...
Real thing was like three sardines in a can.

Pat

Those were really exciting times, remember those articles well (in
fact I have the McCall one even now, dog eared but readable) As
everything in space was new, each article opened a new room in your
head. At this point in time it is still fun to track the origin of
the false design shapes and applications. Now we know those secrets
that beguiled us. Great articles.................Doc