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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. Easy to scoff until you remember... by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... what have we done recently that's so hot? Shuttle launches still cost a billion bucks a pop (yeah, we're always learning how to save money on the next generation), and all we do is either dick around in low earth orbit or lob probes out.

    Maybe I just OD'd on space opera, but to me "space exploration" means letting real people go out there and take real risks, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

    One of those little throwaway comments that stuck in my mind was Buzz Aldrin commenting that we're in for a shock when (if) we do try and go back to the moon, because we're going to find out just how hard it was. Sure, we know how to do it, but do we still have the knowhow?

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  2. Its funny our attitude about success... by ACK!! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Listen the Americans beat the USSR in the race to get to the moon but that is absolutely it.

    They got:

    1st satellite.
    1st man in orbit.
    1st woman in orbit.
    1st lunar rover.
    1st space station.
    1st long term space station.

    The US my country that I love so well got to the moon first.

    The Soviet's took us down in every other first. It terms of keeping people in space for long periods of time they had it down while we had lost interest after seeing some guys hope around on the moon.

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