tfw your inactive blog gets a whole bunch of notes out of nowhere and you wonder if you could ever bring it back to life
Russia’s new Soyuz-2-1v launcher standing on the launch pad
Remember that the Soyuz-2-1v is packing the venerable NK-33 engine (of N1 fame) in its first stage, a variation also proposed for the full Soyuz–one in the main core, and one in each booster. However, I haven’t heard much of this re-engining, except in the pictured variant.
Man, I have just been the sickest since Thursday or so. Keep trying to update the queue…and fall asleep at the keyboard. Stay tuned, folks, I’ll get this going again as soon as I stop alternating between sleeping and coughing up a lung.
Space Christmas and New Year’s from both sides of the world:
At top, a postcard from the Air Force Space & Missile Museum’s Facebook page shows a very confused Ed White and Jim McDivitt being ambushed by Santa, his reindeer, and some aliens.
At bottom, Santa Krikalev is pretty good at TORU and wants to bring good cheer to Salyut… This is a 1978 Soviet card found on Facebook’s Roscosmos fan page.
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Apollo 17 - Unintentionally blurred, unfocused and incorrectly exposed as we love it!
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