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@j_honegger@swiss.social
2025-08-13 12:00:56

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIA FOOD SHORTAGE: SOVIET-STYLE ECONOMY COLLAPSE Vlog 1134: War in #Ukraine
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@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-16 18:40:44

reading more about the energia rockets at russianspaceweb.com

After canceling the development of the N1 Moon rocket in 1974, the USSR did not give up the goal of building a super-heavy rocket. But, starting with a clean sheet of paper, it took more than a decade for the Soviet engineers to field the Energia rocket, which made the two largely successful flights in 1987 and 1988. The nearly 60-meter vehicle was almost universally acclaimed as the most advanced and powerful rocket of our time. However the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 left Energia to ru…
Situated on the northern edge of the Baikonur space center, Site 250 as viewed from one of two main railway lines, which were used to roll out the Energia rocket from its assembly building.
The monument informally known as "fisherman" greets visitors to Baikonur on their way from the Krainiy airport. According to a local joke, the cosmonaut on the mural brags about the size of the fish he caught in the nearby Syr Darya River. Copyright © 2001 Anatoly Zak
At the beginning of the 1990s, Russian rocket engineers watching with horror the demise of the magnificent Energia-Buran program under the crumbling Soviet economy made a last-ditch attempt to save its unique technological heritage within the Energia-M rocket. While much smaller and cheaper than the original 2,400-ton Energia, the Energia-M would preserve all key components, launch infrastructure and experience of the USSR's largest space project... And, it would still be the most powerful spac…