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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. Ah yes. by bpb213 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Good ole cold war soviet tech.
    What would we do without it? :)

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  2. Principle of Engineering by Wind_Walker · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It's a basic principle of any type of engineering: KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Apparently the Soviet engineers never watched Junkyard Waars.

    You see it time and time again on that show. One team builds a simple wrecking ball to tear down a wall, while the other team gets some hydraulics mounted to the back of a semi truck in hopes of ripping the wall down. Well, of course, the hydraulics fail because of either poor engineering or faulty parts, and voila! The simple solution works!

    It goes the same in software, but I know you've all heard those examples a dozen times...