Hello, folks.

A pen friend of mine was attending the MAKS exhibition show and took spectacular photographs. Though they are an intellectual property of him and I only have right to redistribute them on my own website, I think you will be able to browse them despite being hosted in Bulgaria. Keep in mind the connection may be very, very slow.

And yes, do not reproduce without permission.

http://www.cosmos.1.bg/portal/distribution...?f=29&t=927

Amongst them we have photos of Phobos-Grunt and a very weird Mars rover I've never heard about.

Fascinating photos! Would love a translation for some of the captions.

One thing about that Rover...its (I presume) High Gain Antenna would at times almost completely block the sunlight falling on the solar panels...and what's with the little half-beachball and sunshiney gadget at the back(?).

Thanks for sharing...cool stuff.

Engineer Toni Kanev has now visited the Memorial museum of cosmonautics, Moscow! Look at these awesome photos:

http://www.cosmos.1.bg/portal/distribution...f=29&t=1003

I have no doubt that UMSF friends will recognise the unmanned spacecraft presented here.

Zvezdichko,

The building itself is amazing !
What a great architect!
I want to stand next to it and look up!

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Thanks for giving me another reason to visit Moscow

cheers