[FPSPACE] help identifying model in Soviet era picture

[agzak at optonline.net]

Ironically, the large model might be derived from NERVA-powered Martian spacecraft 
concept by NASA circa 1970s, immortalized in Robert McCall paintings, which were relatively 
well known to space fans in the USSR during 1970s and 1980s. Obviously, Soviet own 
concepts of such hardware could've been similar.

Anatoly Zak
RussianSpaceWeb.com

 
 


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Jones <clj at panix.com>
Date: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:30 pm
Subject: [FPSPACE] help identifying model in Soviet era picture
To: FPSpace <fpspace at friends-partners.org>

> http://englishrussia.com/images/more_pictures_ussr_70/76.jpg is a 
> picture from
> inside the article http://englishrussia.com/?p=1110 (feel free to 
> look at the
> whole article; there are some interesting technical pictures in 
> among the
> other pictures, though the one I've cited is the only space-
> specific one I
> saw).  I recognize most of the models and depictions on the wall; I 
> can pick
> out a Soyuz spacecraft on its launcher, a Progress-or-Voskhod-or-
> Molniya (my
> differentiation skills aren't able to resolve the difference), a 
> Vostok, what
> I think are Tsiklon and a Kosmos launcher and a V-2A sounding rocket.
> 
> There's also a very small rocket I can't recognize, a Lunakhod 
> model, and a
> later Venera (I think).  I have some trouble with the pictures on 
> the wall/
> wallpaper.  I pick out what must be Salyut 1, albeit with a camera 
> port(?) I
> believe is either misplaced or non-existent on the flight model and a
> depiction of Luna 1 and/or 2.  I can't recognize the model partly 
> visibleabove and between the Soyuz and the P-or-V-or-M, and I am 
> baffled by the large
> model held in the hands of what appears to be the instructor or 
> oldest child.
> It doesn't resemble anything I recognize as having flown, so I'm 
> guessingit's a conceptual model or something planned at one time (a 
> nuclear rocket or
> manned interplanetary ship come to mind).  Anyone recognize the 
> site and/or
> the unidentified objects I've mentioned?
> 
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