Mig-25: Nearly Sub-Orbital

This astonishing piece of military hardware can fly to Mach 2.7 or nearly three times the speed of sound, and climb to 87,000 feet (27km). Flying it to that altitude is as close as one can come in to space without leaving the atmosphere. At that height, the sky is pitch black in daytime, and one can clearly see the curvature of the earth. The Mig-29 was designed to try to catch the US SR-71 spy plane, but according to official records it never did.

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Up And Over

Orthostatic Testing

Orthostatic Testing

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Apollo Capsule in Houston

EVA Pool, Houston

Russian Lifeboat

Ballooning Over Russia

Test Pilot School

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Mig-25: Nearly Sub-Orbital

Soyuz TM Cockpit

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Space Toilet

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Sim In Session

Barochamber Run

EVA Training Mockup of Pirs

Weightless Mass Training

Pass The 50kg Parcel

Donning a Space Suit in Weightlessness

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Submarine space walking

The Vomit Chair

Manual control

Soyuz Capsule on Deck

Shiny Metal Things

Mir Mockup Detail

The Hydrolab

Hydrolab, Star City

Cosmonaut in a Spin

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Simulator Control Center

Older Soyuz Simulator

Docking Simulator

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Cockpit View

Cramped Crew

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