Photo Gallery - The Podsadka Problem

Media Gallery for The Podsadka Problem
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L! Podsadka Concept of L1 Podsadka, after the concept of Vick for a curved inflatable airlock and free-space crew transfer. l1postnl.jpg
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  L! Podsadka
L1 Comparison 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. l1kalrkk.jpg
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  L1 Comparison
L1 Podsadka Concept of L1 Podsadka, using Soyuz Igla docking system for crew transfer to hatch in side of L1 capsule. l1posigl.jpg
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  L1 Podsadka
L1 Comparison 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). l1com2.jpg
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  L1 Comparison
L1 Cross-section Cross section of L1 spacecraft with Block D stage - after a portrayal in an official RKK History. l1cross.jpg
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  L1 Cross-section
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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