Orbiter Spaceport

I'm working on a model of the "Foguete Suborbital VS-40" , a Brazilian sounding rocket. I'm trying to simulate the SARA - Satélite de Reentrada Atmosférica suborbital mission. Don't know how much detail I'll go into, but it is looking great. It's a nice simple 2 stage rocket. but the payload must have RCS and parachutes. Also, the recovery operations might be nice to do, if I have enought time for it. For now, I'll stick to the VS-40 and an updated Alcantara base.

Although the project was canceled and evolved into the ISS, at least some mock-ups and trainers were built. Being the late 1980's not much reference photos exist on the web. I'm posting the all the images I could find for the convenience of having them together at a single place. This way the general layout of the station can be understood. Some of the solutions found their way into the ISS, others didn't. On general the station seems bigger and the concept would make a nice virtual cockpit for a "alternate history" simulation. Mock-ups: The four long modules running left to right contain the three laboratories and the habitability area. Between these are connecting capsules, and at far right can be seen the station commander's observation cupola. The colored spheres in the foreground assembly are gas containers, with oxygen, nitrogen and other gases for experimental use. A variation of the above arrangement 1989 mock-up with American, Eu...

Here are some cleaned up versions of the LOK main panels. This spacecraft was planed as part of the Soviet moon landing program N1-L3. Orbital module panel Orbital module panel Left part of reentry module panel Right part of reentry module panel

Some resources documenting the layout of Buran cockpit instruments and panels. All photos are from the indicated sites: Cockpit mock-up, Central House of Aviation - http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/modl_buran.html Cockpit instruments, Technik Museum Speyer - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BURAN_Cockpit-Instrumente_0,_Gesamtansicht.jpg  Vadim Lukashevich, h ttp://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/rare-photos-of-russian-buran-space.html I'll add more images as I find them and hope to organize them by vehicle, mock-up or simulator.

Some images from the almost complete Soyuz 7K add-on for Orbiter! In this flight the 7K-T-AF version was simulated.