Manned spaceflight vehicles poster

Interesting... no Voskhods... but since they were basically a rebuilt Vostok, really no reason to have them... the three man version simply removed Vostok's ejection seat for a single occupant and replaced it with three crammed-in couches, and the two-man Voskhod had the inflatable airlock installed on the side for spacewalking. Otherwise they were pretty similar externally.

Couldn't help but noticing the 'crew contingent' below the ISS... of course the crew is NOWHERE NEAR that big, simply because the US canceled its planned development of a crew escape vehicle for the ISS years ago... since the crew is strictly limited to escape seats available aboard Soyuz, which only seats three, they're pretty much limited to six crew on ISS at any one time. Maybe, just maybe, if SpaceX gets Dragon transporting crew to ISS, we MIGHT see some larger crews...

Neat stuff to be sure...

Later! OL JR

luke strawwalker said:

Couldn't help but noticing the 'crew contingent' below the ISS... of course the crew is NOWHERE NEAR that big, simply because the US canceled its planned development of a crew escape vehicle for the ISS years ago... since the crew is strictly limited to escape seats available aboard Soyuz, which only seats three, they're pretty much limited to six crew on ISS at any one time. Maybe, just maybe, if SpaceX gets Dragon transporting crew to ISS, we MIGHT see some larger crews...

Neat stuff to be sure...

Later! OL JR

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Even so, the SpaceX might hold seven, to get that many crew they would need two capsules. Can ISS dock two SpaceX capsules at once or would they need to add yet another docking port?

This is a very cool poster. It's great to see all the craft together in one spot for comparison, and I like how the organized it.

luke strawwalker said:

Interesting... no Voskhods...

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It's right there between the NB-52 (airplane) and the Titan II GLV.

very cool poster! gotta love that beautiful Saturn 1b in there!

Nice poster, I remember someone doing a similar overlay from the sci-fi genre as well, somewhat as close to scale as possible.
https://dirkloechel.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051

I was looking for a poster of all the USA manned space flight mission patches, not sure if there is a complete version that has the final Shuttle missions. There is a complete handbook of mission patches on Amazon, though.

Peartree said:

Even so, the SpaceX might hold seven, to get that many crew they would need two capsules. Can ISS dock two SpaceX capsules at once or would they need to add yet another docking port?

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Well, you have to figure the total you can get with two Soyuz and a Dragon... three in each Soyuz is six, plus seven in the Dragon... that's thirteen. How long they can support that many is another matter. The Mir could handle six for the two-week "handover" period between Soyuz arrivals and departures (usually to rotate the Soyuz vehicles as their six-month on-orbit lifetime was nearing its end ("best if used by" dates) which the Soyuz's were designed for) and it could handle up to ten during the Shuttle/Mir program (during shuttle dockings to Mir) BUT, it required the burning of "oxygen candles" (oxygen-producing chemical generators, one of which caused the Mir fire that nearly killed the two three-man crews then aboard her, including a US astronaut). It also relied on the shuttle to augment the life-support capabilities, because it taxed the Mir's life support to the max...

As for ISS's life support, that I'm not sure about... I would suppose it was designed to handle it...

Later! OL JR

Mushtang said:

It's right there between the NB-52 (airplane) and the Titan II GLV.

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The launch vehicle, which outwardly is almost identical to the Vostok R-7... I was talking about the capsules...

Technically speaking, they have them listed and shown as the "Vostoks" next to the Gemini... the one with the three man crew and the other with the two man crew (these were the only Voskhods flown, because without the ejection seat, the Voskhod had NO crew escape provisions whatsoever, and the three man crew flew without pressure suits and so were doubly at risk... if ANYTHING had gone wrong on those Voskhod flights, the crew would have been dead, period!) Voskhod was strictly a modification to the existing Vostok vehicle to beat the US to the punch for a multi-crew flight (knowing that the Gemini two-man crews were about to fly, Vostok allowed the Soviets to grab another "first" with a three-man crew, and knowing that Gemini was designed to allow for spacewalking astronauts, Voskhod was also modified to allow the Soviets to beat them to the punch for the first spacewalk...)

Anyway, interesting stuff...

BTW, coverage of EFT-1 flight begins at about 4:30 am on NASA TV...

Later! OL JR

NJRick said:

very cool poster! gotta love that beautiful Saturn 1b in there!

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It is impressive next to that Soyuz, ain't it??



Later! OL JR

Is that poster actually available to order somewhere? I know some one who would love it for X-mas.

yes it is! that 1b is just sexy.
ya know...looking at that poster....the Saturn V was a monster wasn't it? I mean, that thing is huge compared to everything else on there......its been 50 years + since it was designed...but it still just awe inspiring.

luke strawwalker said:

It is impressive next to that Soyuz, ain't it??



Later! OL JR

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NJRick said:

yes it is! that 1b is just sexy.
ya know...looking at that poster....the Saturn V was a monster wasn't it? I mean, that thing is huge compared to everything else on there......its been 50 years + since it was designed...but it still just awe inspiring.

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Yep... As Scotty might say "Methinks we won't be seeing her like again..."

Later! OL JR

sadly...I think Scottie is right too......lot os neat boosters on that poster...but to this old dog, nothing will match those Saturns....

luke strawwalker said:

Yep... As Scotty might say "Methinks we won't be seeing her like again..."

Later! OL JR

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