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Soviet Moon Rocket

Posted by michael on from the to-the-moon,-yuri dept.

TestBoy writes "There is a decent article about the Soviet Union's moon rocket and why it was doomed to fail. From one of the pictures on the website, you realize how large just one of its multiple engines were."

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  1. Trouble by Drachemorder · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know why they had so much trouble getting the thing to work. This isn't rocket sci.... oh. Never mind.

  2. Re:Froydian Engine Sizes by cube+farmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. That's a pretty big rocket engine. It makes you wonder if the engineers who designed it were compensating for something..

    Uh... Gravity and inertia?

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