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Great unseen space photos (part 1)

December 8, 2017

Soviet launch pad . Auteur RD107

Soyouz

Mercury

Space telescops

Strange photos with space shuttle

Launch space shuttle

Mercury 13 training

Leonov was the first human to walk in space on Voskhod 2

Voskhod 2 on Start" has a caption that reads "Alexei Leonov perfectly remembers his first space flight and surely the parting words of the Chief Designer." The person that Voskhod Commander, Belyayev, and Pilot, Leonov, are talking to is Sergei Korolev, the mastermind behind the Soviet Union's space program.

Neil Armstrong & John Glenn in good spirits, sitting at their makeshift ''Choco Hilton'' camp during jungle survival training in Panama, June 3-6 1963

Lageos II (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is a passive U. S. -Italian satellite dedicated exclusively to the study of sending laser "shots" from the ground to the satellite in order to measure the speed of the laser and to be able to calculate with great precision the distances between Lageos II and ground stations in order to accurately measure the Earth's axis of rotation, the size of the Earth and the duration of a day. This "golf ball" shaped satellite measures 60 cm in diameter and weighs about 405 kg. It consisted of 426 reflectors with a diameter of 3.8 cm (422 suprasil and 4 germanium).

Von braun with saturn V