Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged christmas, cutaways, flight international, foton, soyuz, venera, venus, yes2 on Friday 2007.12.21 | No Comments »
I can link you some nice images:
Nicolas Pillet’s photo gallery of Soyuz / Foton-M3 & YES2. An example.
Don P. Mitchell’s restored Venus photos from Soviet Venera probe material. An example.
And finally, for the technology fetishists like me, Flight International’s generous offer of past cutaway drawings, space systems section. Or have a look at this cutie from the engine cutaways [...]
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Posted in Depot, RLV:s, Spacecraft, tagged Arctus, COTS, ISS, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Progress, Spacecraft, Spacehab, SpaceX Dragon, ULA on Thursday 2007.12.20 | No Comments »
SpaceHab together with ULA (Lockheed Martin) is proposing a simple cargo capsule to ISS, launched on existing rockets like Atlas V. This seems good.
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This month, my homeland, Finland, had it’s 90th independent anniversary. A short history is in order.
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Hello, had some time with not so many posts. I’ll write more stuff soon, including something that is slightly offtopic for a spaceflight blog.
But in the mean time, the newest Carnival of Space had a nice link to a fine blog which had a great picture (beware it’s full size on the front page) that New Horizons snapped of Io in front of Jupiter. Also shows the glow of the Volcano Tvashtar in the [...]
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