Soviet moonshot

Some beautiful pictures of the equipment used on the aborted Soviet moon landing program:

http://jalopnik.com/5657385/rare-look-a ... on-program

At first I thought these were props from that First on the Moon mockumentary.

That's some awesome pictures you've posted here, praxicode. It's a shame that the Soviet mission to the moon failed and that the US was the first to put man on the moon.

At least they can boast that they had snazzier steampunkish gear.

Wow. First thing I thought looking at that it was steampunk looking. Would've been interesting to see that on the moon. Did they have a set of space suits for it too?

praxicoide wrote:

At first I thought these were props from that First on the Moon mockumentary.

Can anyone post a torrent link to this mockumentary, please?

You can see the Soviet module in the new film Apollo 18. I didn't know they had a landing craft, I thought the mission was scrapped due to the rocket failures.

Todor Jivkov wrote:

You can see the Soviet module in the new film Apollo 18. I didn't know they had a landing craft, I thought the mission was scrapped due to the rocket failures.

Unfortunately, you're absolutely right, comrade. The N1 rocket failed 4 times out of 4 launches. Since it was expensive as hell and during the failures destroyed launchpads as well the mission to the Moon was never flown. But the Soviet lunar landing modules were tested in Earth orbit, though. All tests were flawless and the LK lander was rated for manned flight.

The landing module (LK) was planned to land up to two cosmonauts on the Moon.

During the early 1969 (after the Apollo 8 circumlunar flight) the cosmonauts in the (top secret) Soviet Moon landing programme signed a petition asking the general secretary Brezhnev to approve a (one-way suicide) mission to send one cosmonaut to the Moon just to beat the Americans. The plan was to land a cosmonaut on the Moon and regularly supply him with oxygen and food with unmanned probes until the recovery (return-flight) is possible through advancement of technology. Brezhnev did not approve it.

I've seen Apollo 18 and I loved it! I didn't care much about the story itself (i'm not into paranormal psycho-bullshit kind of stories) but I truly enjoyed the recreation of the apollo landing module, the LK module, walking on the moon in 1/3 gravity etc. I think I felt nostalgic seeing that Americans discovered the LK lander on the moon...
I highly recommend watching of this movie for anyone interested in astronautics as it is quite a fair representation of the lunar exploration (forget about the strange spiders and shit like that, though).

This looks fragging awesome.

Mabool wrote:

This looks fragging awesome.

What exactly are you referring to, comrade?

hi,absolutely describe in the right direction.

well he is almost right not absolutely

I enjoy the 'metallic' look of the spacecraft in OP's photo. Steampunk-ish