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How did NORAD notice Kosmos 954 was making erratic manoeuvres?
In Wiki for Kosmos 954 there is:
In mid-December North American Aerospace Defense Command, which had assigned the satellite the Satellite Catalog Number 10361, noticed Kosmos 954 making erratic ...
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Russian "kerosene" versus American "RP-1"
RP-1 rocket fuel is a "highly refined form of kerosene". Most of the literature I have seen refers to Russian rockets using kerosene, versus American rockets using RP-1 (*1).
Is there really such a ...
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Why do Astro/Cosmonauts refer to things as Russian or American?
I'm watching CSA videos, and have watched numerous documentaries before, and have noticed that both Astronauts and Cosmonauts alike aboard the ISS tend to refer to something as either Russian, or ...
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Have Mercury/Gemini/Apollo produced any unmanned descendants?
It is well known that Russian manned spacecrafts gave birth to multiple unmanned satellite projects (such as Bion spacecrafts, for example).
Have Mercury/Gemini/Apollo spacecrafts or their direct ...
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