Gemini 4

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:15 pm

Well I just looked it up and he did argue against having a hatch that would open too easily. He being Gus Grissom...Well I guess he just didn't want the hatch to open too quickly. Well that combined with having pure oxygen flowing throughout the cabin didn't really help him at all.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:40 pm

Go figure you would look it up.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:45 pm

Well I didn't want to put information out there that isn't true, so I looked it up in one of my space books. I guess they just didn't consider the pressure settings when they made the cabin pure oxygen. Obviously we have learned from that now as we go into space.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 6:44 pm

They didn't consider the flamability either.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:04 pm

Well the Russians learned the same lesson early on during Vostok when one cosmonaut dies in a training accident when a fire swept through his pure oxygen enviroment inside a training mach up. But unfortunately it was the cold war and they werent sharing that information.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:27 pm

Yeah, I wrote this huge history essay on the cold war once. I had a whole section on how many things could have been prevented had the Russians and the US shared information with each other. It is amazing if you actually look at it sometime. It is summer though, so I have kinda forgotten everything.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:24 pm

During the Cold War noone shared information with anyone else.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:15 am

I wouldnt say that the US seemed to share stuff with everyone sometimes unintentionaly. How do you think the russians ended up with a space shuttle that looked just like ours. Because we distributed information on it so freely same with many aircraft that they copied.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:02 pm

What aircraft do they have that are like copies of ours? Oh and the only question I didn't answer on spacebowl was what was the name of the Russian Space Shuttle, so what was it called?

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:05 pm

That is very true. Why haven't they actually used their shuttle though?

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:10 pm

Well the B-29 and F-15 were essentially copied by the russians. The name of the Russian shuttle was Buran and it was used once unmanned but never used again for lack of funding.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:29 pm

AH! Buran! How could I forget that??!??!?!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:11 pm

Well Buran actually stands for Snow Flake if i remember right which is ironic since its only launch was during a snow storm. The cancelation of Buran actually led to delays in the completion of Mir till the shuttle Mir program started in the late 90's.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:49 pm

Well were they planning on sending humans into space in it? Did they just stop it because of funding and stuff?

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:54 pm

Go figure, we have to pick up the Russians slack.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:09 pm

Well It was supose to fly manned eventually but like many american programs it was delayed and overpriced and the Soviet Unjion was colapsing so it never flew again.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:16 pm

So kinda like the whole X-33 thing except they at least flew one of their space shuttles?

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:32 pm

I guess you could look at it that way. But actuually they built 3 orbiters although only one of them actually flew.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:37 pm

Wow, that sounds kind of like a waste in the end. I mean, what do you do with spare orbiters?

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:03 pm

Well one is sitting in a park in moscow the other two are in a hanger near the launch sight.