/edu/ - Education

>>1460
I want them too. So anon, have you found them yet? Or did you just make this thread hoping others could contribute to it but you won't contribute yourself? It has been… 10 months

>>8061
Not OP, but I'd contribute if I had more time to make dedicated posts on the subject. The OP also lacks Cosmonaut and/or astronaut so people are bound to miss it in catalog search

This is an excellent review of "TIME OF THE FIRST" a Russian film on Leonov made in the typical American style "blockbuster" with anti-communism on top.
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5436425

>>1460

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USSR perspective of space race

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/

http://www.astronautix.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/series/104249-rockets-and-people

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/78134.Two_Sides_of_the_Moon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213301.Korolev


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US perspective of space race

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/896458.A_Man_on_the_Moon

The only photograph of the surface of Venus is still from the Soviets. Looks like a land devastated by nukes. They even record the sound from the surface. There's a lot of thunderous sound, very spooky.
For anyone wondering
Surface photo : https://www.space.com/18551-venera-13.html
Sound recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZDW53U8qQ
Note: I only able to found the sound recording on youtube. I don't know if its the legit one though, I heard a different sound record by Venera 14 while watching a documentary about Venus by Discovery Channel. The real one doesn't sound that clear, it's more like a thunder sound made by electronic equipment from the 80s. Imagine it like a thunder sound in Mario Bros game.

>>8063
An additional video made in supplement to this one - Overview of soviet Space Flights in regards to the first Space Walk.
https://ok.ru/video/354570471986

Haven't read (big one) but have heard it's THE book covering the Soviet side.

Posting the 4-volume series Rockets and People that was mentioned here >>8064
Boris Chertok was a controls systems designer, one of Korolev's closest colleagues and deputy director at Energia, later on continuing to work at Roscosmos until his death. The English translation was done by Asif Siddiqi, author of Challenge to Apollo >>8070 and published by NASA.

Its been over 20 years since ion thrusters were developed how much longer should it take before rocket engines develop to a point where travelling outside the solar system becomes feasible for standard rockets, I know space isn't all that great but the technology and the advancements in particle physics that could be produced under the conditions of better space travel would be tremendously helpful to people worldwide.
>inb4 billionaire shills, those rockets are made for marketing and use space tech from the 50s that even some 3rd world societies have passed
The current focus of SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc is on optimizing the trip to low earth orbit. This requires high thrust to weight ratio, low ISP engines. What you are asking for is low thrust to weight ratio, high ISP engines for efficient travel in the vacuum of space. Once economical trips to low earth orbit get squared away maybe capitalists will move onto RnD for whacky interplanetary and interstellar engines. The requirements for lifting a rocket out of our thick soupy gravity well, and the requirements for a rocket that works efficiently in space are vastly different. There will never be a single rocket engine that can take a payload from the surface of earth, all the way to mars. The job requires multiple specialized rockets and boosters.
>What about “exotic matter” and using the physical phenomena found in particles on the quantum scale
There are a confirmed thousands of other unused particles and god knows how many physicial phenomenal in them that have been discovered over the past 50 years. But they have low TWR, and high cost at the moment, and aren't suited to atmospheric operation. A Ramjet for in-atmosphere launch could be a viable alternative.

debunking Spinlaunch (yes, yes Thunderf00t is pretentious, ignore that part).