Added 2 new A* pages:Finishing up Rocket Week here in A* news blurghing, I came across the Soviet/Russian Soyuz family of rockets, the workhorses of that successful space program, which have been around since the good old days, and that explains why they look so darn cool: that retro-hip Soviet space style! I'm totally not kidding; just check out the flared thrusters on these babies (these are all by NASA, taken at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan):
image by NASA (source)
image by NASA (source)
image by NASA (source)
image by NASA (source)
I love how the rocket nozzles are that bright Soviet red. :) The Soyuz ("Union") line has been around since '66, derived from the earlier Vostok ("East") line, which launched for instance the Luna probes starting in 1958; I've posted this before, but I'm doing it again just to finish off the Soviet space style point: the Luna 2--first craft to the surface of the Moon (1959) was just so awesome-looking:
image by NASA (source)
It's the Pac-Man of space probes, I tell ya!
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