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Personally, I absolutely love the design of the Soviet space vehicles. Perhaps it's a result of the chronic underfunding of the program, but the utilitarian lo
by tomswartz07 11y ago
Personally, I absolutely love the design of the Soviet space vehicles.
Perhaps it's a result of the chronic underfunding of the program, but the utilitarian look for the LK3 lander is amazing.
- usrusr 11y agoTo be fair, that lander looks much less improvised than the tinfoil surfaces and seemingly random boxy angles of the one that actually made it. By the way, the 1998 battlezone remake did a really good job at transferring the very different design languages of the US and the USSR military-industrial complexes to a space fantasy game setting. The recognizable styles of the fantasy designs were what opened my eyes to the clear differences in their real life counterparts. Military high tech, with its single-buyer nonmarket and extreme focus on function sure is a surprising place to find recognizable design languages!
- avmich 11y agoLK - just like LEM - went through multiple iterations in design. A book about that has some pictures - http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/filin/04.html http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/filin/04.html .