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 Piece of a Shuttle
There is a piece of what was before a glorious Russian shuttle “Buran”, staying in front of one of the Moscow hospitals. It hasn’t been placed there as a monument or something. People who know its history tell that once when the Soviet Union collapsed they sold much of high-technology costly hardware for just some pennies to people who didn’t even know what to do with all this.
For example, this head module of Buran shuttle in some mysterious way appeared in ownership of the hospital. They couldn’t find a better use for it to make a pressure chamber. Then they found out that they have not enough funds to make such chamber, so, they decided, the best use of this piece of space relic is to sell it for scrap metal.
The Russian Space Museum
How about paying a visit to Russian Space exploration museum? If it seems like a good idea then come inside for it.
The Yuri Gagarin greats your in the hall and invites to see seventy more photos of what inside.
This is the world’s first biological satellite, in which Russian dog “Laika” has made its first flight in 1957. It’s of actual size on display.
And here her colleague “Belka”.
And Belka’s partner “Strelka”.
Rocket Key
What you see here is obviously key. What differs this particular one from some other key is that with a turn of this key the most powerful machine built by human genius in our modern times was awaken to life. This is the key from Russian space rockets, thousand tons monsters carrying tons of cargo weight to the Russian space station “MIR” which is sunk in pacific now.
Such keys were a real artefact amongst engineers participating in the launches and there was a long line of those who wanted to (more…)
Future Face of Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, first Russian cosmonaut, you probably know him.
People from Latvia know him too, they say that during the Soviet Times Russian authorities wanted to rename Latvian capital city Riga after Yuri Gagarin to Gagarin city, but they didn’t for some reason. So they decided to commemorate the glory of the hero in bit different way. They have made a monument of Gagarin, but not just a monument. Yuri tragically died in plane accident during the test flights he participated in while on his service in Russian army in his young age. Latvian monument builders decided to imagine what if he didn’t die how he could like at his 70s and built such a monument which tends to look how Yuri Gagarin could look in his old ages. You can see it below:
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in the modern world’s history into space.
Russian Army Telescopes
Russian army has space vessels and it needs good telescopes to control the fleet. Some like those ones in the mountains of Tajikistan, previously very secret location, now is sometimes open for the visitors.
Cocosmanaut and Cactusmanaut
In Russia astronauts are being called “cosmonauts”, but this is not the case.
Those are two widely discussed Russian heroes: cocosmonaut and cactusmonaut.
They travel to cocosmos (space).
Where Do Shuttles Go?
For those, who wondered “Where did all the three Russian shuttles go?”. One has been found on the backyard of some repairing shop.
Unique Shots
These two photos are pretty unique. The first shows the tradition of Russian astronauts, according to it just before taking their seats inside of the space ship they have to take a leak upon the wheel of the bus which takes them to the launching site. I don’t know who started this tradition but they say all of them do, including these two from the latest Russian space program launch. This is the first time it has been caught on film for already 40 years of space launches.
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