July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... 1974 the programme was secretly terminated. The Soviet lunar lander spacecraft was never fully tested in action. Prototype ... cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... out as it required complex orbital manoeuvres. When eventually ready, Luna-25 will become Russia’s first domestic spacecraft in its post-Soviet history to head to the Moon. The last was Luna-24 in 1976. Aside from being the last...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...-nut heaven But this was just the start. The next box contained models of the US and Soviet spacecraft and an inflight checklist book used for re-entry procedures. Another box contained another camera, this time...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... was the metal ‘USSR’ ball, dropped by the Luna-2 soviet spacecraft. The landing was hard but that made it energetically efficient ...be expected, only soft landings have been considered for spacecraft despite the higher cost, as the stored rocket fuel ...
