On this day 12 April 1961 the bravest man ever was launched into Earth Orbit on a ballistic missile and inside a round metal ball called Vostok I and thereby heralded the beginning of Manned Space Flight.
Pure nostalgia !
Way back in 1963 Roberta Leigh broke away from Gerry Anderson of Fireball XL5 fame and created her own puppet series called Space Patrol
It featured captain Larry Dart patrolling space in a Galasphere 347 .
This Galasphere is an amazing space craft and it would be great fun to...
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I have to admit I do have a lot of addons and I am now in the process of deleting all the ones that CTD and sadly there are a few .
I shall see how that goes
Otherwise I will do a clean install of Orbiter 2016 and start from scratch
I don`t know if it is me and my computer system (high end 64 windows 10 Nvidia ASUS laptop with 3 HD) or just Orbiter downloads are not as good as they used to be.
But it seems to me now that MOST files I download for orbiter 2016 seem to end in CTD!
Not only for version 2016 but for the other...
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Just to say that today I flew a complete 3 orbit mission using this sim (Friendship 7) in REAL time !
It was amazing and very very real ! I felt as if i was the Astronaut !!!!
The views of the earth from the capsule were truly amazing as well .
The entire flight lasted 4Hrs 55 Minutes 21...
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Only 2 out of all the scenarios :-
1. Launch/Soyuz 7K-OK -Soyuz 1 (but the Soyuz spacecraft remains inside the casing for the whole flight - is this right?)
2. Orbit/Soyuz 7K-OK - Soyuz 7K-OK(N)
All others causes immediate crash to desktop
I hope it can be sorted out as i really...
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All but 2 of the Soyuz 7K scenarios work and all the others crash to desktop despite making sure all the needed files are downloaded and installed !!!!!
I have just downloaded this amazing addon along with all the associated files
However there are a couple of problems I cannot seem to resolve when I launch the Soyuz 1 scenario.
1. there is a large square on the earth which i assume is the area around Baikonur - should this blend into the earth...
Thank you so much - it works like a dream now
I reloaded all my "XL5" textures on the fins and the tail and the "Fireball XL5" on the side of the nose cone and everything is working just fine
Thanks again for your help