Soviet Luna Missions |
Soviet Luna Missions |
May 4 2006, 03:05 AM
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I thought that it was time to start up a discussion of what we know, or would like to know, about the Soviet Luna Missions. To start off, I have heard many a reference to the landing system utilized by the early landers, such as Luna 9. However, I have yet to find a report, or even a diagram, that shows the sequence of events, or such details as the air bags. If such references do not exist, I hope that some of the UMSF community have Russian contacts that could lead us to the source material before it ends up in the dust bin of history. In addition, I heard of an effort several years ago to obtain ALL of the imagery from Lunakhods 1 and 2. Does anyone know if that effort was able to secure that data? Also, as far as Lunas 15, 18 and 23, the sample-return missions that didn't quite make it home, are there any official reports "out there" that detail what actually occurred to those missions? Or will we have to wait for the high-resolution images from the LRO to determine their fates? Another Phil |
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May 4 2006, 07:20 PM
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In the early 1990s, Andrew Lepage wrote in the online EJASA on a series
about the Soviet and US race to the Moon, focusing on then new information about the lunar probes. All of the EJASA issues from 1989 to 1996 are online here: ftp://ftp.seds.org/pub/info/newsletters/ejasa/ Andrew's articles are in these issues: "Mars 1994" - March 1990 "The Great Moon Race: The Soviet Story, Part One" - December 1990 "The Great Moon Race: The Soviet Story, Part Two" - January 1991 "The Mystery of ZOND 2" - April 1991 "The Great Moon Race: New Findings" - May 1991 "The Great Moon Race: In the Beginning..." - May 1992 "The Great Moon Race: The Commitment" - August 1992 "The Great Moon Race: The Long Road to Success" - September 1992 "Recent Soviet Lunar and Planetary Program Revelations" - May 1993 "The Great Moon Race: The Red Moon" - July 1993 "The Great Moon Race: The Tide Turns" - August 1993 "The Great Moon Race: The Final Lap - November 1993 "A Personal Adventure in Home Computing: The Origin of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9" - March 1994 "The Great Moon Race: The Finish Line" - July 1994 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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