Morozhenoye Station
Apr. 16th, 2025 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sky_callsA permanent orbital space station lifted off from Site-P bound for Minmus orbit. That brings to total number of permanent stations in orbit to four; Mir and the so called Battlestar Kermachev in Kerbin orbit, Lunnayna Orbital’naya Stantsiya Udacha in Munar orbit, and now LOS Morozhenoye in Minmus orbit. These stations are to support three permanent bases on the various moon’s surfaces; Kermangrad and LZhM-2 on the Mun, and LzhM-3 on Minmus.
That’s a lot of cosmonauts in space.
And while the presence is permanent, each individual cosmonaut cannot be there permanently. They need a chance to come home to touch grass and do propaganda tours before going back to work. To manage that, the Soviet cosmonautics program is developing a series of craft specially designed for taking crews from Kermin to the orbiting moon stations and back. Another craft will be developed for shuttling crews from the station to the surface and back.
That’s a lot of cosmonauts in space.
And while the presence is permanent, each individual cosmonaut cannot be there permanently. They need a chance to come home to touch grass and do propaganda tours before going back to work. To manage that, the Soviet cosmonautics program is developing a series of craft specially designed for taking crews from Kermin to the orbiting moon stations and back. Another craft will be developed for shuttling crews from the station to the surface and back.
