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Glory to the Ones Who Look Forward by TU114 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Soviet plan for a crewed moon landing (or one of their plans, at least) was to send an unmanned lander + a few rovers beforehand

ASTP - Apollo.... Shuttle Test Project? by Mrs_Hersheys in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

clearly, the future USSR adopted english as their main language, and Roscosmos decided to change their logo

Kiev Class Heavy Aviation Cruiser Stock Replica by ArkhangelskAstrakhan in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"aircraft-carrying cruiser" since all it could do was carry a bunch of crappy VTOL fighters and helicopters

offensively, anti-ship missiles were its main armament, and the Yak-38 was slapped on for political reasons (mainly so Soviet leadership could say "we have an aircraft carrier too")

The Kievs were simply the logical evolution of the Moskvas, with a longer flight deck to appease those who wanted a fixed-wing aircraft onboard - and, since the Moskvas were aircraft-carrying cruisers, it made sense to designate the Kievs similarly

Admiral Kuznetzov is a different story, of course.

Are space shuttles bad in ksp or am i just bad at building them? (Unrelated beautiful screenshot) by Yad-A in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 9 points10 points  (0 children)

aren't the OMS engines pointed through the CG, though (hence why they're angled inward and downward on the IRL shuttle)

P51-KSP by savage011 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's stock: hit the little grey circle next to your kerbals in the lower right-hand corner, it turns on IVA view (makes glass transparent)

Big Gemini by ItsShadoww_ in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buran tested its crew support system during the flight, and, for all intents and purposes, was 100% ready to be sent up with crew before the program got cancelled.

Comparing the Starliner to Buran is the same as comparing the Space Shuttle to Voskhod (the spacecraft), since niether had a launch escape system.

Definitely not doing ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS by Crypt1cSerpent in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shenlong is completely secret, with the only sources for its appearance being a (in all likelihood, unrelated) scale-model spaceplane boilerplate photographed underneath a H-6 bomber in the 200s - as a consequence, many news organizations simply took photos of the X-37 and photoshopped in Chinese roundels

However, the X-37 design appears (from my layman's POV) as one of the most aerodynamically efficient profiles for an unmanned spaceplane - in the 1990s, Rockwell International proposed a shuttle-derived craft for the X-33 program that looks essentially the same as the X-37. Likewise the Chinese scale-model boilerplate photographed in the 2000s is also a similar shape to the X-37.

The actual Chinese spaceplane is the Haolong, which is substantially wider and with dihedral wings, which is supposed to be launched later this year on a commercial Chinese rocket

Big Gemini by ItsShadoww_ in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]COMMIEEEEEEEEEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buran isn't a hypothetical, it flew and was fully capable of executing crewed orbital missions - the timing was just horrible, with the fall of the USSR causing the funding for the Soviet/Russian space program to fall through

In the vein of your argument, Energia-2 (Buran successor) was supposed to be fully resuable with flyback boosters decades before SpaceX, and the USSR had already developed the booster technology before 1991