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What Engineering Aesthetics Means
Why hardware designed with no thought of beauty often turns out more beautiful than hardware designed to be beautiful.
1 September 2026
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Why the Tu-144 Was Ahead of Its Time
The world's first supersonic airliner flew two months before Concorde — and left the routes before it too.
13 August 2026
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Why a Museum Needs a Vault
The museum displays about a hundred objects. HANGAR-Z holds more than three hundred. Why they are there and what happens to them.
5 August 2026
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Inside the Orlan Spacesuit
A semi-rigid torso, a hatch in the back and gloves that required inventing a separate engineering discipline.
28 July 2026
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Five Engines That Changed Spaceflight
The RD-107, NK-33, RD-170 and two more — each solved a problem previously considered unsolvable.
11 July 2026
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What Progress Carries
Water, air, propellant, food and parcels: how the logistics of an orbital station work.
26 June 2026
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Реставрация Ил-2: год в мастерской
Как из поднятого со дна озера бронекорпуса получается экспонат — и где проходит граница между реставрацией и новоделом.
27 May 2026
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How Lunokhod Was Driven
A crew of five in Simferopol, a delayed television image and a speed of two kilometres an hour.
28 March 2026
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