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Boeing Recoverable Launch Booster

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The N-1 5L, the second vehicle, was launched on July 3, 1969 and carried a modified L1 Zond spacecraft and live escape tower. This rocket carried a Zond L1S-2 for Moon orbit and flyby and intended photography of possible crewed landing sites.

"The flight lasted only a few moments; as soon as it cleared the tower, there was a flash of light, and debris could be seen falling from the bottom of the first stage. All engines instantly shut down except engine #18. This caused the N-1 to lean over at a 45-degree angle and drop back onto the pad.[52] The nearly 2300 tons of propellant on board triggered a massive blast and shock wave that shattered windows across the launch complex and sent debris flying as far as 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the center of the explosion.

The launch escape system had activated at the moment of engine shutdown (T+15 seconds) and pulled the L1S-2 capsule to safety 2.0 kilometers (1.2 miles) away. Impact with the pad occurred at T+23 seconds.

The destroyed complex was photographed by American satellites, disclosing that the Soviet Union was building a Moon rocket.

Launch Complex 110 East was thoroughly leveled by the blast, with the concrete pad caved in and one of the lighting towers knocked over and twisted around itself. This was one of the largest accidental artificial non-nuclear explosion in history."

Date: July 3, 1969

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Videos: “Space to Ground” & other space habitat reports – Aug.15.2023

Here is this week's selection of videos about space stations and living in space starting with NASA's latest Space to Ground report for the International Space Station: https://youtu.be/3sDX2laa5bo ** Expedition 69 Astronaut Frank Rubio Talks with ABC’s Good Morning America - Aug. 11, 2023 - NASA Video Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview August 11 with ABC’s “Good Morning America”. Rubio is in the midst of a record breaking long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars. When Rubio returns to Earth on September 27 he will have spent a total of 371 days in space—the longest single spaceflight by a US astronaut. https://youtu.be/quuW0hx1gvU ** Expedition 69 Space Station Crew Answers Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Student Questions - Aug. 14, 2023  - NASA Video Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Steve Bowen of NASA answered questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Aug. 14 with students attending Kingfisher High School in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Rubio and Bowen are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars. https://youtu.be/bHxdKVKFE1U ** ISSRDC  2023: Multiple videos of presentations and panel discussions from the 12th Annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) held July 31-August 3, 2023 in Seattle, Washington are available on the ISS National Lab YouTube channel. Here are two samples: *** ISSRDC Day1 Panel - Future Of R&D in Low Earth Orbit: https://youtu.be/cXH0AG0RNPo *** ISSRDC Day2 Panel - Pioneering Low Earth Orbit (LEO): https://youtu.be/wbMCdz-Qz8g ** Replay! Russian spacewalkers outside International Space Station - VideoFromSpace Streamed live on Aug 9, 2023 ... Two Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today (Aug. 9). Learn more: https://www.space.com/russian-cosmona... https://www.youtube.com/live/iGBLP7vYqNM?feature=share ** China's Space Station "Tiangong" Fly Around - Hazegrayart The Tiangong Space Station is a Chinese space station that is fully operational. It is being developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as a part of China's ambitious space program. The name "Tiangong" translates to "Heavenly Palace" in English. The Tiangong Space Station consists of multiple modules that will serve various purposes, including living quarters for astronauts, scientific research laboratories, and facilities for conducting experiments in microgravity. It is designed to be a long-term, modular space station similar to the International Space Station (ISS), but with a smaller scale. https://youtu.be/lPpdOZRh2ks ** Live Video from the International Space Station (Official NASA Stream) - NASA Watch live video from the International Space Station, including inside views when the crew aboard the space station is on duty. Views of Earth are also streamed from an external camera located outside of the space station. During periods of signal loss due to handover between communications satellites, a blue screen is displayed. The space station orbits Earth about 250 miles (425 kilometers) above the surface. An international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries operates the station, and it has been continuously occupied since November 2000. It's a microgravity laboratory where science, research, and human innovation make way for new technologies and research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. More: https://go.nasa.gov/3CkVtC8 Did you know you can spot the station without a telescope? It looks like a fast-moving star, but you have to know when to look up. Sign up for text messages or email alerts to let you know when (and where) to spot the station and wave to the crew: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov https://www.youtube.com/live/xAieE-QtOeM?feature=share ====

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Gonna share some of my fav aviation/tech channels because yes: AgentJayZ - all about turbines, testing, rebuilding, this guy rocks: https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ Millenium7 - great channel about military aviation engineering: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVDkfkGRzo0qcZ8AkB4TMuw

Scott Manley - aerospace, spaceflight & rocketry, past and present: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A

Hazegreyart - animations of aero projects that never came to be: https://www.youtube.com/c/Hazegrayart/videos

Aircrew Interview - what is says on the tin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7UJNsNRmZq4uqI3vJ3S5ow

[ there are tons more but this is where I find myself most lately ] Honorable mention: this fantastic interview with a former U-2 pilot, this one is an absolute blast:

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The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplane concept, wonderfully rendered by Hazegrayart!

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What if a space vehicle could horizontally take-off, dock with a space station and land like a plane ? ✈️✨ Meet the Skylon space plane concept : https://www.fromspacewithlove.com/skylon-space-plane/

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📸 Reaction Engines Limited, Hazegrayart on YouTube

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Junkers RT-8 (Saenger I) Rail Launched Space Plane

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NASA publica nueva animación de ARTEMIS para comprender la misión

NASA publica nueva animación de ARTEMIS para comprender la misión

Un video reciente de YouTube realizado por la cuenta de YouTube, Hazegrayart, combina una increíble animación por computadora, excelente música y nítidas grabaciones de audio archivadas para mostrar cómo funcionará el futuro Lunar Gateway de la NASA para las próximas misiones de Artemis. Las grabaciones de audio archivadas abarcan solo alrededor de un tercio de los cortos cuatro minutos y medio…

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Hazegrayart Shows how Rocket Lab's Reusable Neutron Rocket Could Work

Hazegrayart Shows how Rocket Lab’s Reusable Neutron Rocket Could Work

There’s little doubt that we live in a new Space Age, defined by increasing access, greater competition, and the commercial space industry. The titans of this industry are well known and have even become household names. There are old warhorses like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance and fast-rising stars like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, Virgin Galactic,…

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So I Was Browsing Obscure Space Stuff And...

Yeah, it's been a while since I last posted because I forgot to actually make this a thing but hey, better late than never right?

Anyways, to continue the spaceplane theme from my Hermes post, I'd like to look at a neat little concept called

The MAKS Spaceplane

Despite its odd appearance, this vehicle would have been the first manned and airlaunched orbital spacecraft, lifting off the back of the mighty Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was a colossal aircraft built to carry the Buran space shuttle.

This airlaunch method had a few advantages, such as not requiring a fixed launchpad, meaning its launch position can be adjusted to allow greater orbit inclination while also ensuring debris doesn't land in inhabited areas.

As with all complex ideas, the design had a few different variations considered, mainly with how to mount it to the launch aircraft. While an angle of 45° was optimal for the release, having the An-225 reach this would require fitting it with its own rocket motor, which wasn't ideal from a design standpoint. While there was apparently some consideration to mounting the spaceplane underneath the aircraft, this also would have required considerable modification. An arrangement was eventually settled on that would allow for the vehicle to sit 'piggyback' on the An-225 while allowing safe takeoff without modification to the carrier plane.

Then there was the matter of stages. While the designs shown here echo the US Space Shuttles' approach of an expendable fuel tank with reusable engines, there were also designs that were fully expendable cargo-only vehicles and fully reusable SSTOs.

As for the spaceplane itself, the design called for a two-seat cabin, with the TTO-1 variant including a further 4 seats in a pressurised cabin and a docking module. The TTO-2 variant simply left it as an unpressurized payload bay with an 8.3 ton capacity. The entire spaceplane was 19.3 metres long with a wingspan of 12.5 metres. It would have weighed 18 tons when empty.

At the rear of the spacecraft were two RD-701 main engines, intended to last 15 flights and also capable of switching modes. As a result, the 32 metre long external tank carried three different fuels; liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and dense kerosene.

In order to launch, the An-225 would have to go through an elaborate dance, first climbing to an altitude of 8 km before entering a dive. Once it hit an altitude of 6½ km it would then pull up sharply, before releasing the MAKS at a height of 8½ km and a speed of 900 km/h. The two main engines would then light up and hoist the spaceplane and external tank on its way to orbit.

And now for the timeline. The MAKS project was first proposed in 1988, drawing inspiration from the earlier Spiral and Bizan spaceplane projects. The system was intended to be reusable for 100 flights and thus massively reduce payload launch costs. It ran alongside the Buran program, envisioned not as a replacement but rather as a sister program, sharing the same support aircraft and hardware.

It was hoped funding would be acquired over the next few years, and for the first flight to take place in 1998. Unfortunately this was not to be, with the program being axed in 1991 instead, after mockups of the orbiter and external tanks had already been completed.

Last of all, Hazegrayart made a fantastic video about how this would have launched, so I highly recommend ye check that out.

And that's all for now, thanks for reading and hopefully I won't forget about this whole thing for months again, but no guarantees I guess.

Til next time...

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The Night Sky on Instagram: “✔️ . @marstronauts : 😍🚀Amazing video by Hazegrayart on youtube, showing... http://bit.ly/2V2tz59