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Post by gwiz on Sept 23, 2005 7:06:07 GMT -4
Under "Technology: Beating the Soviets: First space walk" it says that an airlock was necessary as only one of the crew had a spacesuit.
I think they both had spacesuits, and the reason for the airlock was the air-cooled electronics systems of the Voskhod which were likely to fail if the whole cabin was depressurised in the Gemini manner.
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Post by gwiz on Sept 23, 2005 9:05:35 GMT -4
Under "Technology: Communication: ...TETR-A...", there could be mention of the facts that that TETR-B was launched on 29 Nov 68 and TETR-D on 29 Sep 71, so there was no need for BS to claim that the decay date of TETR-A is a lie. It just shows he didn't do any research on which TETR satellites were available after TETR-A decayed. (TETR-C was lost in a launch failure, TETR-D had some operational problems, I don't have any data on when TETR-B stopped operating, but it didn't decay until 1979.)
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Post by Waspie_Dwarf on Jan 12, 2007 6:53:10 GMT -4
Under "Technology: Beating the Soviets: First crew of three astronauts on board one spacecraft." it says, "This would be a good example if the Soviets hadn't simply stuffed a third man into their two-man capsule just to set the record," As Voskhod 1 was essentially a stripped down Vostok with no ejector seats it would be more correct to say that the Soviets had stuffed two extra men into a one-man capsule.
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Post by Jason Thompson on Jan 12, 2007 11:18:26 GMT -4
Not necessarily. Voskhod was already planned as a two-man craft, even if it was in itself a modified one-man craft. At the last minute it was further modified to get a third man in.
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Post by Waspie_Dwarf on Jan 12, 2007 21:35:27 GMT -4
Not necessarily. Voskhod was already planned as a two-man craft, even if it was in itself a modified one-man craft. At the last minute it was further modified to get a third man in. That is a fair point, but in the context of the HB argument that the Soviet Union was far ahead of the USA in space technology I still feel that it a better (and totally honest) argument to point out that the Voskhod was essentially a modification of a one manned craft. Voskhod 1 was in reality a public stunt to launch 3 men into space before the USA had launched 2. Whilst the USA were about to launch a genuine 2 manned vehicle with manoeuvring and docking capability the "technically superior" USSR were reduced to modifying a one manned capsule with none of these capabilities and which did not even have a launch escape ability. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 12, 2007 22:22:44 GMT -4
In a way it is fair to point out since while the US built an entirely new craft for their 2 man missions, and then their 3 man ones, the soviets merely modified their one man version, not buildings a new capsule until Soyuz which was launched well after the Gemini's.
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Post by JayUtah on Jan 19, 2007 19:14:26 GMT -4
I may tinker with that wording. But PhantomWolf got the point I wanted to make: The Soviets didn't design new spacecraft to accommodate additional crew; they simply crammed more people into the ships they already had. The Americans designed spacecraft for the intended crew complement. Whether that constitutes the Soviets being "ahead" of the Americans is, I guess, a matter of interpretation. But the question of whose technology was superior is much more straightforward.
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