Worlds First Space Blogger
The online blog of astronaut Maksim Suraev is an event of international and spacewide standing. For the first time in history, Russian cosmonaut will be posting news and different interesting stories with lots of photos straight from the outer space.
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Space things
As Russia is being the first country to cross the threshold of space, it has lots of so-called “Space cities”. Usually, they are situated in some cities where the great Soviet and Russian cosmonauts were born and all the things from astronauts’ food to the models of most renowned space shuttles are displayed there.
Coalmine Insight
There were lots of articles about some plants and factories, but unfortunately most of them were deserted and abandoned. Today we will bring you an insight into the equally time-worn and moth-eaten plant but just with one little difference. It is not abandoned. At least not to the death.
Popov – Champion, Marconi – Impostor
Over a hundred years there is an argument in the world concerning real radio inventor. But one needs to do a little research to make it clear that Marconi had simply read Popov’s papers.
The first known evidence for Marconi to be the radio inventor appeared on June 2, 1896 with his patent application to the UK Patent Office for a discovery, 13 months after Popov had delivered his lecture on radio themes before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society members in St. Petersburg on May 7, 1895. That secret patent application #12039, inspired as they say by the UK Patent Office’s Principal examiner William Preece, the Chief Electrical Engineer of the British Post Office, however contained no diagrams and charts performed by Marconi himself but his lyrical sketches only.
Fishing All the Secrets Out
Who is this weird-looking man on the picture? Why he has such a funny beard and glasses? What is he doing in this article, on the very main page and how does it connected with Russia?
And more importantly, what’s wrong with this vest of his and why the hell he needs so many pockets on it? Fishing all the secrets out.
Epic Fail
Long long ago when future seemed to be so distant and dim, people of the Soviet Union dreamt a lot and cherished a bunch of illusions about fantastic makings of the future. And straight 50 years ago, on the eve of New Year, one of most famous Russian newspapers published a special edition. Group of journalists-dreamers took their risks and tried to predict how it’s going to be 50 years after, in 2010.
Masks Craze
Craziness with this bird flu in Ukraine seems like it has approached its peak. Millions of Ukrainians wonder around in masks like it was better days in Hong Kong but all this with Eastern European twist. Like:
….dogs in mask (like they are afraid of the virus being mutated further from swine to dogen grippen.
Perfrostology Institute’s Underground
There is a cave (smaller than Igarskiy’s one) under the perfrostology institute, located in Yakutsk’s suburb. Mainly it is used as a storehouse — you can find cores there which were made by drilling, different devices and even mountain cranberry supplies.
Sats from Underground
This is how the Russian ballistic missile with nuclear warhead launch could look like, but it is not.
Now they launch commercial satellites in this manner. Right from old military shafts and silos.
The Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is one of the and largest space launch facility, and one of the first ones in the world. It is situated in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan. The cosmodrome was built in the 50-ies in one of the most distant areas of the Soviet country, and now measures 90 kilometres east-west by 85 kilometres north-south. Sputnik 1, the Earth’s first artificial satellite lifted off the Baikonur. It goes without saying that most photos shot there were not for public use, still some workers managed to have a pic of it for their private collection. Now we are going to show you some of images made therе before the collapse of the USSR.
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