The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft and its booster and were moved to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a railcar April 2 for final preparations before launch April 5, Baiknour time, to the International Space Station. The Soyuz will carry Expedition 27 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan and Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko to the complex. The trio will spend six months on the station, joining station Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli, who have been in orbit since December 2010. Samokutyaev, Garan and Borisenko are in final training for launch with their backups, Anatoly Ivanishin, Dan Burbank and Anton Shkaplerov. The footage includes interviews with Astronaut Nicole Stott, STS-133 Mission Specialist, and with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Deputy Director for ISS, NASA Flight Crew Operations.
Newport News Shipbuilding successfully launched Indiana (SSN 789) into the James River June 3-4. The submarine was moved out of a construction facility into a floating dry dock using a transfer car system.
VITYAZ DT30 is a two-link all-terrain vehicle on a caterpillar track designed for operation in difficult climatic conditions of the Far North, Siberia, the Far East, the Arctic and Antarctic on soils with low bearing capacity (swamp, snowy virgin land, impassability, rugged woodland) at ambient temperature from minus 50 °С to plus 40 °С.
All-terrain vehicles are equipped with turbocharged diesel engines.
Engine power — 800 hp.
Fuel consumption per 300 liters per 100 km.
Cruising range of 500 km.
The maximum land speed — 47 km/h.
The maximum speed afloat — 4 km/h.
All-terrain vehicles «Vityaz» differ in their original layout, consist of two articulated all-metal links connected to each other by a hook-on scheme. The first link is designed for the crew and is equipped with autonomous heating and ventilation systems, it has a driver’s cabin and a passenger compartment with a capacity of up to 7 people including the driver. Right behind the cab is the engine-transmission compartment.
The second link of the body, connected with a special rotary hitch, is a cargo platform covered with a tarpaulin.
This weeks project is something I have been working on for a while, the wood has taken longer than expected to dry out allowing the resin pour. The root was saved last year following the removal of a hedge.
The amount of resin used in the project was approximately 4kg. Although not shown in the video, the root was rough turned then placed in an over for several hours to speed up the drying, even then it still took a further 4 weeks to dry out and reach a state of equilibrium.
The initial rough turn was a little more shaky on the lathe than I would have liked and not something I would recommend doing for any extended period, however it was only a few minutes before it was balanced up enough to turn the speed up a little. Unfortunately the minimum speed on the lathe is only 500rpm, which is a little too fast for out of balance rough turning of things this size.