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Topic: Soviet lunar landing research vehicle?
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collocation
Member Posts: 387
From: McLean, VA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 02-16-2020 07:10 PM
   
Did the Soviet program have an Apollo-type Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV)? Any info/pictures would be greatly appreciated. |
Lasv3
Member Posts: 415
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 02-17-2020 12:30 AM
The Soviet cosmonauts training for the lunar landings used a specially equipped Mi-9 helicopter. According to the late Alexei Leonov, one of the would-be lunar landings crew member, he personally "made nine very difficult landings in that helicopter with the engines cut."This looks like a rather wild method. The reason is the Soviet manned lunar program was always under-financed and therefore the designers had to be sometimes very inventive to find some simple and not very expensive solutions. |
Lasv3
Member Posts: 415
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 02-17-2020 08:19 AM
Regarding the photograph — the only one I have ever seen is showing Alexei Leonov in front of this special equipped helicopter. It can be found on page 685 of Asif Siddiqi's "The Soviet Space Race With Apollo" published by the University Press of Florida in 2003. |
collocation
Member Posts: 387
From: McLean, VA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 02-17-2020 07:07 PM
Found another picture and more info in Google books p. 684 within “Challenge to Apollo” The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974, by Asiff Siddiqi NASA SP 2000-4408. |
Lasv3
Member Posts: 415
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 02-18-2020 12:37 AM
The University of Florida publication is the reprint of the original NASA SP, however, NASA SP is in one volume and the reprint is in two volumes. This work is the best account of the Soviet manned lunar program history I ever read. |
collocation
Member Posts: 387
From: McLean, VA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 02-18-2020 06:19 AM
Thank you. Do you have any idea how to get the Florida edition, contact the university directly? |
Lasv3
Member Posts: 415
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 02-18-2020 08:13 AM
Amazon sells both volumes currently: - "Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge" priced USD 34, and
- "The Soviet Space Race with Apollo" priced USD 32,49.
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oly
Member Posts: 928
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 02-18-2020 07:01 PM
Try the NASA Technical Reports Server for a PDF version.
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