Manned Lunar flights
Early piloted spaceflights
Space Stations
Interplanetary/lunar flights
Unpiloted spacecraft
Chinese space activities

Military spacecraft
Personal memories
Swedish space history - in Swedish
Mystery satellites
Book reviews
Miscellaneous


Manned lunar flights

·         The continuing enigma of Kosmos 146 and Kosmos 154 

·         The N-1 launch on 21 February, 1969 (3L) 

·         The N-1 launch on 3 July, 1969 (5L) 

·         Target of N-1 launches and nature of 7K-L1S spacecraft 

·         How to compute the launch time of a lunar probe 

·         The UR-700 project 

·         Mission profiles of 7K-L1 flights 

·         Zond (7K-L1) cockpit layout 


Early piloted space flight


Vostok
 

·         Soviet Space Deceptions - not so many after all! 

·         The flight of Sputnik-4 

·         The flight of Sputnik-5, a.k.a. Korabl-Sputnik 2

·         Sputnik-6 and the failure of 22 December 1960

·         The flights of Korabl-Sputnik 4 and 5, the final laps to human spaceflight!

·         An analysis of the flight of Vostok-1 

·         The flight of Vostok-2, notes of nostalgia

·         Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 and observations of their flight in radio intercepts 

·         The flight of Vostok-5 and Vostok-6 as observed in radio intercepts 

·         Vostok retro-fire attitude

Voskhod
 

·         The flight of Voskhod-1, what a surprise!

·         The Failure of Cosmos 57 

·         The Voskhod-2 mission revisited 

·         Voskhod-3, the source of the rumor mill of March 1966? 

Soyuz
 

·         Entering Soyuz 

·         Characteristics of the Soyuz attitude control system 

·         An analysis of the Soyuz-1 flight.

·         Did cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev speak on shortwaves during the flight of Soyuz-3?

·         The flight of Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5

·         The Soyuz-6/7/8 mission and radio observations thereof

·         Soyuz emergency landing zones - the "Ugol Pasadki" story 

·         The IGLA radio system for rendez-vous and docking 

·         The Soyuz-11 disaster 


Space stations
 

·         Salyut-1, its origin, flights to it and radio tracking thereof

·         The Almaz Space Station Program 

·         Launch windows to space stations 

·         The TKS ferry for the Almaz Space Station 

·         The Mir-to-Salyut-7-and-back flyacross by Soyuz T-15 

·         The flight of Zvezda 

Interplanetary/lunar flights

·         Soviet/Russian Mars Probe Launches 

·         Soviet/Russian Venus Probe Launches 

·         Mission profiles of early Soviet lunar probes 

·         Mission profiles of early U.S. lunar probes

·         Luna 3 - the first view of the moon's far side

·         The E-3 Lunar probes of 1960 

·         Notes on the design and flight profile of the Luna 15-24 series 

·         The E-4 project - exploding a nuclear bomb on the Moon 

·         Object E - the early Soviet lunar probes. 

·         Mars-3 image

·         SMART-1 approach to lunar polar orbit, November 2004

Unpiloted spacecraft
 

·         Sputnik-2, more news from distant history

·         Sputnik 2 - was it really built in less than a month? 

·         The veracity of early rumors about Soviet space ventures 

·         Official announcement of Explorer-1 

·         The Zeya satellite 

·         Preparations in Samara for launching a Foton spacecraft from Plesetsk in early September 1999 

·         The Quickbird-1 launch failure 

·         Visual observations of launches from Plesetsk 

 

Chinese space activities

·         China's first two satellites, or - Did it ever occur to you how similar to Telstar-1 they look? 

·         The satellites launched by FB-1 

·         "Launch from the desert - Memories of JSLC" 

·         The flight of Shenzhou 

·         The flight of Shenzhou-2 

·         Shenzhou re-entry vehicle back in Beijing 

·         The Shenzhou model - a close look 

·         Changes at JSLC over a decade

·         Shenzhou-3 notes

·         Shenzhou-4 notes

·         The flight Shenzhou-5

·         Yang Liwei at the IAC 2004 

Military spacecraft

 

Personal memories
 

·         Oberth, von Braun, Corona and me 

·         The day I saw Yuri Gagarin and my 
camera jammed!

·         The first rockets launched into space  
from Sweden,

·         Space personalities that I have met 

·         Tributes to Maxim Tarasenko, 1962-1999 

·         Impressions from IAF 1999 Congress in Amsterdam 

·         Gagarin memorabilia (long download time)

Mystery satellites
 

·         Mystery satellite nr 1, March 20, 1998 

·         Mystery satellite nr 2, January 19, 1999 

·         Mystery satellite nr 3, October 2001 

Book reviews
 

·         An analysis of the book Roads to Space 

·         Excerpts from "Rote Orbit" 

·         Tidbits from Energia 1946-1996 

·         A review of the book "The Rocket Men" 

·         Notes while reading "The Moon Race End Game" by P. Pesavento and C.P. Vick in Quest, Vol. 11 Nr 1 & 2

Miscellaneous
 

·         Unusual flight paths of missiles launched from Plesetsk and Baikonur

·         The unveiling of the cabin layout of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.


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