"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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"dennis@home" wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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They have the space shuttle, the only thing faster than that was
Apollo
but
that's old technology borrowed from the Germans.


The crappy V2 rockets that they rianed down on gay old England?

Well the Saturn V wasn't exactly advanced compared to a V2.


Sigh. the Saturn V was a Model A. The V2 was a model T. Both
designed in the days of slide rules, and poor metalurgy. Tube
electronics and crude plastics. Do you have anything useful to say?

They were both more or less the same.
However the Russians did have significantly more advanced rocket engines.


They built bigger engines, typical of Russian designs. Scale up
something, then everthing else needed the same.

You don't know much do you?
They actually made smaller engines, it was NASA that scaled them up.
The Russians redesigned them to get more thrust from the same size.

They did build a bigger rocket, they could do this as they had more thrust
available from their better engines.



Did you know that when the US military launched a shuttle they didn't have
boosters with O rings in them?
This was because they were better without the O rings but cost more.
NASA were cheapskates.

NASA have been using the designs to make their rockets better.


Proof?