Soyuz booster separation - "Star of Korolev?"
Stefan Weiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eya90Y5jo (at minute 2:20)
- displaying the launch of Soyuz expedition 21, the American commentator
calls the visible pattern created by jettisoning the booster rockets the
"Star of K---". It sounds like he might refer to Sergei Korolev (or
Korelev), the chief designer for the Soyuz programme, but I've never
heard that expression before. Is "Korolev" correct? And has anybody else
ever heard this pattern called a "Star of Korolev"?
The closest thing I could find was a Russian forum where the automatic
translation renders it as "King's Cross", and where one of the posters
is also wondering about the name given in the YouTube video.
Just in case, this is the effect I'm talking about:
http://s04.radikal.ru/i177/0910/71/85bdcd0017d3.jpg
TIA
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stefan
Pat Flannery
> In this video -
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eya90Y5jo (at minute 2:20)
>
> - displaying the launch of Soyuz expedition 21, the American commentator
> calls the visible pattern created by jettisoning the booster rockets the
> "Star of K---". It sounds like he might refer to Sergei Korolev (or
> Korelev), the chief designer for the Soyuz programme, but I've never
> heard that expression before. Is "Korolev" correct? And has anybody else
> ever heard this pattern called a "Star of Korolev"?
That's what he says alright. I think I heard or read the expression
several years ago, but I don't remember where.
Got a kick out of the little stuffed lion hanging in the Soyuz.
Pat