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Topic: Soviet Salyut space stations: archival imagery
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RichieB16 Member Posts: 552 From: Oregon Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 02-26-2015 09:49 PM
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 Member Posts: 583 From: Louisville CO US Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-01-2015 09:52 AM
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 Member Posts: 403 From: Hilversum, The Netherlands Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 03-04-2015 07:00 AM
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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