Soviet LK Lander Landing On The Moon animation

The LK lander was the former Soviet Unions planned lander to get a man on the moon. Much smaller then the American Lunar Module, it only fit one man. The same engine would have been used for decent and rendezvous with the LOK (equivalent to the Command Service Module) Much of the design for the LOK went into the Soyuz.

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[dalek14mc]

Why don't we ever get toys of these things? :(

[loperspest]

@dalek14mc  Well, the Soviet moon program was actually a Russian state secret until the nineties and is still pretty obscure. The lunar lander you find in the Smithsonian in Fallout 3, the Valient II, rather resembles it interestingly enough.

[ma049]

Soviet space hardware is so steam punk.



[loperspest]

@ma049

It is pretty neat, yeah. But if you want steampunk space hardware, look up Project Orion, the nuclear pulse rocket. It was literally a giant piston propelled forward by nuclear explosions.

en*wikipedia*org/wiki/Project_­Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

[ma049]

@loperspest I just looked up Project Orion, and it is indeed pretty damn nutty.

Pretty cool though.

[loperspest]

@frankensteinmoneymac Thanks, it was indeed amusing. Thank you, I needed a chuckle.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@loperspest I was just being silly! :) the scenerio played itself out in my head...and I just started laughing to myself and had to share it!

[loperspest]

@frankensteinmoneymac I doubt that would be the case, but I can still imagine it happening.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@loperspest COSMONAUT: All right my comrades....I have accomplished the mission, & beemed the information & pictures back to you....am now ready to come up & dock........wait...somethings wrong! I hit return rockets nothing happens!?!? ORBITER: Yes Comrade....we did not want to alarm you...but the scientists..um....they say, there not enough room for fuel & all equipment...so...very sorry comrade but this must be suicide mission for you. You will be greatly honored by Mother Russia!

[loperspest]

@frankensteinmoneymac From what I understand, the Soviet plan, at least one of them anyway, was Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, just like the American plan. A funky part was there was no access tunnel, so after docking the lone cosmonaut had to do an EVA to get back to the LOK.

And that is another thing, this was just one man landing on the moon in the LK. If he had some kind of trouble getting back in the LK, he was fracked.

russianspaceweb*com/lk.html