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Old 01-September-2007, 03:32 AM
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Nice page. Well done! A few images I had not seen before there.

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A common feature of Russian space vehicles of the time was air-cooled electronics, so everything was enclosed in pressure vessels. Other countries seem to have managed with radiation cooling, perhaps because their smaller launch vehicles enforced lower mass and power budgets.
I believe that you'll find that this was because they used Vacuum Valves, whereas the USA switched to transisters for Gemini (although parts of the Saturn V still used valuves as well.)
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