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Photo Gallery - The Podsadka Problem
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Media Gallery for The Podsadka Problem
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Short Description
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L! Podsadka
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Concept of L1 Podsadka, after the concept of Vick for a curved inflatable airlock and free-space crew transfer.
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l1postnl.jpg 350 x 189 9.5 kb Credit: © Mark Wade
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L! Podsadka
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L1 Comparison
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Comparison of L1 drawings, the first displayed in the Kaluga Museum, the second from the RKK Energia history. Differences are notable in the forward SOK, solar panels, external sensors on the PAO.
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l1kalrkk.jpg 480 x 369 29.4 kb Credit: © Mark Wade
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L1 Comparison
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L1 Podsadka
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Concept of L1 Podsadka, using Soyuz Igla docking system for crew transfer to hatch in side of L1 capsule.
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l1posigl.jpg 608 x 122 33.5 kb Credit: © Mark Wade
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L1 Podsadka
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L1 Comparison
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Official drawings of the unmanned early L1 version (without forward SOK, loaded with instruments in capsule, old-fashioned rumpled Soyuz-type solar panels) and the later L1 version (SOK consists of SAS electronics on light lattice structure, rigid solar panels first seen in Soyuz ASTP).
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l1com2.jpg 289 x 350 21.2 kb
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L1 Comparison
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L1 Cross-section
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Cross section of L1 spacecraft with Block D stage - after a portrayal in an official RKK History.
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l1cross.jpg 185 x 480 20.3 kb Credit: © Mark Wade
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L1 Cross-section
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© Mark Wade, 1997 - 2007 except where otherwise noted.
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