Lecture "Space Bikes"

Pre-Christmas time - good and fun. Therefore, as a topic for the next lecture, I decided to choose space bikes - funny, touching and interesting stories of the space industry:

• How did you know that there is no life on Earth?
• Space smuggling and how to drink brandy in zero gravity?
• How Korolev took responsibility for the hardness of the moon.
• Space fireflies.
• Seals in zero gravity.

Under a cat the lecture plan, links to the presentation and information sources.

The stories are short, and the lecture is conditionally divided into five parts:

1. Interesting projects.
2. Wonderful people.
3. Difficult technique.
4. Curious things.
5. Seals.

The presentation is here . ODP format, distribution, enhancement and public reading are highly appreciated. Note - do not try to open the file from Google Drive, download it and open it locally.

Stories were collected from various sources, except for Wikipedia it is worth noting a large list of interesting and informative works that are strongly recommended for familiarization:

• Non-fiction films: Space Odyssey: Century 21, Deep Space, When We Left Earth, Moon Machines.
• Books: B.E. Chertok, Kamanin's Diaries, Tom Wolfe “Guys What to Need”, Lowell “The Lost Moon”, Mike Mullein “Riding on Missiles”, Mary Roach “The Other Side of Astronautics”.

And if you want something more entertaining, that is:

• Feature films: The Right Stuff, Apollo-13, Gagarin: First in Space, Taming the Fire
• Programs and games: Stellarium (planetarium), Orbiter and KSP (simulators)

Seals in weightlessness are taken from YouTube: