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Topic: Chabot Space Center (CA): Soyuz Secret

tigga
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Posts: 28
From: Oakland, California
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 05-31-2004 07:13 PM

Thanks to all who have emailed asking what is going on with our Soyuz capsule since the great story about our X-ray.

We have lots of new info, images and cool stuff and it will be going up on the website over the next couple of weeks.

No, we don't have an answer yet, but we have a couple of interesting avenues to follow - one involving real craft used as models suggested to us by Anatoly Zak and another route suggested to us by some of the serial numbers we are finding.

We've also been able to get some images from when it was in Russia, showing what it was like before it was 'restored' before we got it!

We're also grateful for the images we've been sent by some of you who have Soyuz 'parts'. That too is very helpful for us and once we've got all this stuff online, hopefully it will be useful for collectors trying to get more information on their pieces.

If you haven't dropped us a line at soyuz@chabotspace.org to let us know that you'd like to be kept up to date, then make sure you do so.

music_space
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Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001

posted 06-19-2004 10:29 PM

Thanks Alex. As one of the curator of a few Russian pieces, I hope that my pictures were of use to you. When you have a chance, please let me know if you had any of these on board (well, I'm sure you had a clock-chronographer, but did you find an emergency sextan, and did the VZOR periscope have its movable lens?). And, did you watch the online video I suggested you watch on Expo 67 in Montreal? If so, I'd be curious to know if you recognized any of the models on display...

For other readers, the links which I forwarded to Alex were to see some pictures of models displayed inside Expo 67's Russian pavilion, and a video where you can see more such models at around two minutes and 45 seconds in.

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