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    Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
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    Image of adamczar adamczar
    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    I can't help but feel that in 2009, we should have gotten to "the future" already. Instead this looks like stuff from the 70s. Where's the flying cars and anti-grav space crafts?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/25/09

    @adamczar: the fact that the world's most reliable, longest lasting space delivery vehicle is a rocket based on an ICBM from the 50s which ran on kerosene speaks loudly that our space programs should attempt to live in the present, not the future.
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    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    The Soyuz rocket design has been around since '67. Still the most used and reliable way of getting Up There.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/25/09

    @Grey_Area: is that a typo because the design has been around since '57
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    03/25/09

    @Grey_Area: Yep, Russian engineers know what works and to only make steady, small improvements with each iteration. Evolution instead of revolution. It's given them some very reliable and reasonably priced hardware.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/25/09

    @tetracycloide: Hmm. The original R-7 tests were back then. The Soyuz model launch vehicle seems to have started in '66 or '67.

    But that's wiki for you. [en.wikipedia.org]
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    03/25/09

    @corpore-metal: I love that instead designing an obscenely huge Vehicle Assembly Building, the Russians build their rockets horizontally then raise them into position.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/25/09

    @Grey_Area: i guess it's just semantics on my part then. to me the design was the R7 and it hasn't changed, the model differences are primarily changes in construction materials and techniques.
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    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    It's gorgeous, but does it land again? Or does all of that punkery break up and whizz around in orbit, forever threatening our satellites and space projects?


    Do they still do that capsule/splashdown thing?


    And where do they attach the bat?

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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    Baikonur is really a fabulous place for space launches - it's still so old school but so high tech at the same time; it's kind of a gleaming steampunk kind of environment. It's grittiness is a completely different feel from the clean, high tech atmosphere around American space facilities. :)


    Special places in my heart for both, I have to say.

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    Image of BeowulfRex BeowulfRex
    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    It's got that "I built this out in my barn out of a '58 Plymouth" look to it.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/25/09

    @BeowulfRex: that's more or less how the R7 was made although from a V2 instead of a '58 plymouth.
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    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    Welcome to Cosmodrome!


    One rocket in, One rocket out! Hopefully.

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    Image of Zack Stentz Zack Stentz
    03/25/09

    In reply to Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
    There's a weird, functional beauty to these pictures that it's difficult to put one's finger on-- Sovietpunk?
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    03/25/09

    @Zack Stentz: It's a retro beauty of form following function.


    Also Cosmodrome is just about the coolest name for a rocket I can think of.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/25/09

    @NerD!!!: The Cosmodrome is where they launch the rockets from... Soyuz is the rocket.
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    03/25/09

    @Zack Stentz: Please don't try to 'punk the functional beauty of exquisite engineering.
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    03/25/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Thanks for the clarification.


    Even the name evokes an Art Deco aesthetic.

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