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US & Russia Show Off New Rocket Designs
jonerik writes "Following up on today's story on the Soviet Union's massive N1 rocket are these two articles on the latest US and Russian rocket designs. Space.com covers the American side of things, with a story on Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 and Boeing's Delta 4 boosters. The Associated Press has this article on the Russians' Rokot booster, originally built in the '70s as the SS-19 ICBM and converted to civilian use in the mid-'90s. The Rokot was in the news this past weekend when it successfully launched a pair of US-German satellites - dubbed Tom and Jerry - into orbit to map the Earth's gravitational field and 'chart large-scale movements of water around Earth.'"
The CIA infiltrated the Russian Space Program and sabotage the Soviet plan to land on the moon ahead of the Americans by several years. Search for it on Google, you can find many links.
Now something a little off topic. Aren't Russians and the other ex-communist countries against America and the capitalist way of life? Don't they hold spite against these people who were their enemies or do they completely forgive Americans and have no loyalty to communism? Remember, the Cold War ended only 11 years ago.
Pretty easy to be cocky when most everyone else is poor and/or illiterate. score!
but alas, you americans are fat and bloated, like the jews.
Bullshit - The Russkies stole every significant American aerospace design we ever had.
The "dumb peasants" as you say stole:
Liquid Fueled Rockets
Our Nuclear Pile (Graphite Reactor)
Our Atom Bomb.
Our H-Bomb.
Our/France's Concorde SST (TU-104)
Our B-29 (TU-??)
Our Space Shuttle (Buran)
And everything they thought up on their own (N-1) BLEW UP ON THE FUCKING PAD!!! HAHAHAHAH!!
The ONLY success and first they EVER had was on the Sputnik/R7 booster, getting a satellite into orbit a few months before us, and then later a manned mission again just a few months ahead of us, Neither of which would have been possible if WE hadn't INVENTED the technologies that got them there!