Walking the Airlock

Walking the Airlock is a poly-tuned electronic piece in 16, 32, and 12
edo plus unconstrained pitch material.

http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3095

– NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the
early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because
the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material
samples and deploy scientific experiments. To support this, and other
Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the
capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting
spacecraft. However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in
holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the
Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty
conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two- or
three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and
Apollo. The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before
the first manned Gemini was launched.

The Soviets’ avionics technology was not as advanced as that of the
United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left
depressurized by an open hatch; otherwise the air-cooled electronics
would have overheated. Therefore a spacewalking cosmonaut would have
to enter and exit the spacecraft through an airlock.

This one sounds absolutely great!

Oz.

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www.ozanyarman.com

On Mar 7, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:

> Walking the Airlock is a poly-tuned electronic piece in 16, 32, and 12
> edo plus unconstrained pitch material.
>
> http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3095
>
> – NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the
> early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because
> the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material
> samples and deploy scientific experiments. To support this, and other
> Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the
> capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting
> spacecraft. However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in
> holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the
> Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty
> conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two- or
> three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and
> Apollo. The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before
> the first manned Gemini was launched.
>
> The Soviets’ avionics technology was not as advanced as that of the
> United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left
> depressurized by an open hatch; otherwise the air-cooled electronics
> would have overheated. Therefore a spacewalking cosmonaut would have
> to enter and exit the spacecraft through an airlock.
>
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

I like it. You have a knack for picking names that set the mood for your
pieces, or for creating pieces that fit the mood of the name you've chosen.
I didn't read the whole description, but the early-space-age,
Soviet-American space-race concept came through very clearly.

Regards,
Jake

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Thank you Dr. Oz! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>wrote:

> **
>
>
> This one sounds absolutely great!
>
> Oz.
>
> ✩ ✩ ✩
> www.ozanyarman.com
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
>
> > Walking the Airlock is a poly-tuned electronic piece in 16, 32, and 12
> > edo plus unconstrained pitch material.
> >
> > http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3095
> >
> > – NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the
> > early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because
> > the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material
> > samples and deploy scientific experiments. To support this, and other
> > Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the
> > capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting
> > spacecraft. However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in
> > holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the
> > Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty
> > conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two- or
> > three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and
> > Apollo. The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before
> > the first manned Gemini was launched.
> >
> > The Soviets’ avionics technology was not as advanced as that of the
> > United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left
> > depressurized by an open hatch; otherwise the air-cooled electronics
> > would have overheated. Therefore a spacewalking cosmonaut would have
> > to enter and exit the spacecraft through an airlock.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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Thanks Jake!

The upshot was that the Soviet Cosmonauts had to use an airlock to
spacewalk. The reason being the Soviet avionics were air cooled and would
fry in the insulating vacuum - where as the US Gemini and Apollo avionics
were ok with vacuum, no airlock needed.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Jake Freivald <jdfreivald@...> wrote:

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>
>
> I like it. You have a knack for picking names that set the mood for your
> pieces, or for creating pieces that fit the mood of the name you've chosen.
> I didn't read the whole description, but the early-space-age,
> Soviet-American space-race concept came through very clearly.
>
> Regards,
> Jake
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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