2 or 3?

got carried away with the power cables 🙆‍♀️

just leave it like that as a bit

My article on the reusable Zarya capsule now on TSR.

thespacereview.com/article/5184/1

How different are APAS-95 and APAS-89, really? A look at the evolution of the Author’s beloved docking port, from its Buran origins to the triumphs of the International Space Station.

A look at the evolution of my beloved APAS-89 port from its 1970s origins to the triumphs of the ISS era.

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How different are APAS-95 and APAS-89, really? A look at the evolution of the Author’s beloved docking port, from its Buran origins to the triumphs of the International Space Station.

A look at the evolution of my beloved APAS-89 port from its 1970s origins to the triumphs of the ISS era.

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Science Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flop The Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed…

The full story of the ISS' peculiar Science Power Platform, from its origins as part of the Mir-2 complex, inclusion in ISS plans and cancellation, to the surprising resurrection.

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Science Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flop The Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed…

The full story of the ISS' peculiar Science Power Platform, from its origins as part of the Mir-2 complex, inclusion in ISS plans and cancellation, to the surprising resurrection.

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unfortunately i'm stuck with this one

it also keeps ignoring the window size preferences and launching documents in 0 by 0 pixel windows

acrobat froze when i clicked to disable ai features lmao

ok I’m on 2006, one more chapter

cheeky Science Power Platform pressure vessel in the background

my article on the power stick should finally land in a couple of days, it's going to be pretty chonky, but well illustrated

RD-170 chambers waiting for assembly

Recolored version of the Russ Arasmith illustration of the final Space Shuttle Phase B design by the NAR-led team; the Convair B9U booster and NAR-161-B orbiter.

b&w scan by @macsjr.bsky.social, color via nasa.gov

RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5 In this issue: RD-170 development rigs, Energia tidbits and orbiters in cool places.

RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5
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RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5 In this issue: RD-170 development rigs, Energia tidbits and orbiters in cool places.

RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5
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It's an anti-corrosion coating on the aluminum

not bad

I don't know

MAKS Tank Mockup Assembly - NPO Molniya Footage of the assembly and transport of the external tank mockup for the MAKS spaceplane project, developed by NPO Molniya using Buran technology in the 1990s.

Full 6 minute video of the MAKS tank mockup manufacturing and assembly at NPO Molniya and transport by helicopter.

another previously unreleased photo of 1K "Buran" in the short-lived Baikal livery casually dropped by Vadim Lukashevich as part of a meme

how your email finds me

two flavors

I know an RD-0120 when I see one!

Some shots from the 2004 online auction where the third Buran orbiter was for offered for sale on allegro (iykyk)

by mid-1976 (or 1978) that final configuration (305-2 - right)) was approved, succeeding OK-92 (center), so if the model is of OS-120 (left), the configuration is out of date by 3 years. it could also just be based on the Space Shuttle shape, which by that time already had the short OMS pods

and again the model in the NPO Molniya museum, showing a similar livery to the mid-80s illustrations of the almost final orbiter design

ok sorry for the chaos, there might be something to this model after all. it does seem to be the same model as in this photo of Pilyugin and Lozino-Lozinskiy dated 1978

But actually