Cosmonaut Exhibition - Science Museum
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This might be worthwhile considering as a PH Science Forum trip?
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_y...
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_y...
Coughs..
www.cite-espace.com/en
I suppose you could be REALLY unlucky and catch rain more like high 30's and glorious sunshine....
www.cite-espace.com/en
I suppose you could be REALLY unlucky and catch rain more like high 30's and glorious sunshine....
I went Saturday, I left my 2for1 voucher at home 
but it's only £14 anyway so wasn't an issue. It was busy but then it's recently opened and it was the weekend.
It was superb and I would happily view it again, unfortunately no photographs are allowed, but it's interesting to see how advanced the Russians had got with the lunar landers and rover. And seeing all the different space clothing laid out was brilliant.
but it's only £14 anyway so wasn't an issue. It was busy but then it's recently opened and it was the weekend. It was superb and I would happily view it again, unfortunately no photographs are allowed, but it's interesting to see how advanced the Russians had got with the lunar landers and rover. And seeing all the different space clothing laid out was brilliant.
They also spread themselves a bit too thinly. Before Apollo 8 managed to orbit the moon in December 1968, the Soviets had a Plan B lunar programme involving using a stripped down Soyuz spacecraft carrying only one cosmonaut which would perform a figure of eight loop around the moon and return to earth.
The rocket to be used was the then relatively new Proton. It is likely that Alexei Leonov would have been the cosmonaut involved.
They actually performed a number of test missions carrying biological subjects (including turtles and plants) which carried out this type of flight in the Autumn of 1968. The missions were labelled Zonds 4 and 5 and were only partially successful. Although both craft returned to earth successfully, they experienced much higher G loads during re-entry than planned so they were concerned that a human passenger might be incapacitated or even killed.
However, once Apollo 8 went around the moon, the manned mission was scrapped as there was no propaganda value to be had by flying it. They, of course, never revealed to the West what the true purpose of Zonds 4 and 5 was until the 1990s.
The rocket to be used was the then relatively new Proton. It is likely that Alexei Leonov would have been the cosmonaut involved.
They actually performed a number of test missions carrying biological subjects (including turtles and plants) which carried out this type of flight in the Autumn of 1968. The missions were labelled Zonds 4 and 5 and were only partially successful. Although both craft returned to earth successfully, they experienced much higher G loads during re-entry than planned so they were concerned that a human passenger might be incapacitated or even killed.
However, once Apollo 8 went around the moon, the manned mission was scrapped as there was no propaganda value to be had by flying it. They, of course, never revealed to the West what the true purpose of Zonds 4 and 5 was until the 1990s.
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