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RichieB16
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posted 02-26-2015 09:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RichieB16   Click Here to Email RichieB16     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Every photo I have ever seen of the Russian Salyut space stations have been grainy low quality photos. Do high resolution photos of these space stations exist?

kyra
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posted 03-01-2015 09:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kyra   Click Here to Email kyra     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Short answer, no. I have seen the images of Salyut 1 (b/w), 6 (color) and 7 (color). They are all of the grainy quality. This is after exhaustive internet searches and looking at many dozens of Soviet and Russian space books and back issues of magazines (NK, Spaceflight).

They likely exist, but behind locked doors. The hi-res versions seem to be enlargements of grainy originals.

Salyut-3 and 5 missions have the least amount of in-space photos published, all in the interior. In documentaries, they seem to use stock footage of Salyut 6 dockings.

lucspace
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posted 03-04-2015 07:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for lucspace   Click Here to Email lucspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is not so much that the hi-res photos are "locked away" as "not available to the general public." There are some very good shots of Salyut 6 and -7 but they are all pre-digital and not available like NASA photos are.

A number of years ago, I tried to obtain some digital Buran pictures from a photo agency and failed because I could not prove to be planning their use in a book or other publication.

The Russian press agency Sputnik (formerly RIA Novosti) has wonderful photos of early Soyuz spacecraft during ground preparation that I have never seen published anywhere; that is where a lot of the early Soviet photos ended up.

Also, it seems as though the Soviets paid less attention to photographic documentation of their space events; where are the good-quality shots of the launch of Vostok 1? Besides, the military connection of some of their activities also did not help candor in this respect; we are just as likely to see photos on Salyut 3 and -5 as pictures taken on the military shuttle missions.

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