Vostok 1, Rare and new images
Diagrams, Art and Photos.
The RGANTD Archive have released some new pictures from Yuri Gagarin’s historic first flight, and I have gathered up some others, including detailed high resolution plans of Vostok.
Vostok 1
Here’s a nice illustration from the time:
Click for a larger version. Unfortunately the labels are right on the edge of being readable.
Test version of Vostok:
Captions translated by me.
Interior view of the Vostok spacecraft cockpit:
In this case the captions survived!
Pilot’s control panel
Dashboard with globe
TV camera
Illuminator with optical guidance device
Ship orientation control knob
Radio receiver
Container for food
Soviet Era Illustration:
The title reads: “Cabin of the Vostok craft.”
Gagarin’s Descent Module:
OK, a photo that ISN’T hardware!
Yuri Gagarin visiting the Tower of London.
For the modellers:
Scale for the Vostok fairings:
And finally, so extremely clean high resolution plans of Vostok. These have been cleaned and enlarged with AI software, which I find works exceptionally well on line drawings and diagrams.
End on views:
Views from 4 sides:
As usual, click to get a higher resolution view.
This Edition’s Cool Link:
In Search of Gagarin’s Capsule.
A Russian blog post going over descent module photos, working out which is which. Computer translation built into the link.
This Edition’s Cool Image:
Soyuz in dark blue trim livery, commemorating Yuri Gagarin’s flight. By me!
A couple of notes:
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https://starbase1.gumroad.com
Including N-1 reference renders, and spacecraft reference photos.
(Literally) Notes:
Substack, (Which hosts this newsletter / website), has started a new service called NOTES. It looks to be a Twitter-like system, but with the clean interface of Substack, and is advert free. I’m still looking at the details, but it’s proving popular with Substack authors. Here’s hoping it gets the user numbers to take off.
It could prove REALLY useful for when I just have a single image to publish, rather than a full article. You can find it here:
And there’s an introductory news article on it here:
That’s all folks!
Nick
Always great seeing these
Yes! Love this.