Old space cool tech pics
>>54229175
>Soviet """"advancement"""" in rocket design was just putting more of the same thrusters on instead of making the thrusters better.
Fuck me, it's amazing they got anywhere desu.
>>54229175
>>54229408
>>54229419
Is this a Russian failures thread?
>>54229149
Speak English.
>>54229516
hoenstly the re-useable spaceshuttle NASA used was a flop just as well.
it ended up costing way more than expected and its payload was shit.
For only a little bit more money would could have used regular rockets and had a significantly better payload.
>>54229533
>hoenstly the re-useable spaceshuttle NASA used was a flop just as well.
Yes, but it was still actually used, and we did get some good use out of it as well - especially when we had to repair Hubble.
None of those Russian shuttles/rockets ever did anything. The Space Shuttle was a waste of resources and resulted in two loss of all crew but it still actually carried crew into space successfully.
>>54229408
>>54229550
But the problem is that the entire reusable part was hailed as saving money and they were going to do *hundreds* of launches with it.
> Each vehicle was designed with a projected lifespan of 100 launches, or 10 years' operational life, though original selling points on the shuttles were over 150 launches and over a 15-year operational span with a 'launch per month' expected at the peak of the program, but extensive delays in the development of the International Space Station [10] never created such a peak demand for frequent flights.
In the end they only got 135 missions ( 2 failures) from the entire program.
Depending how you want to do the math, the cost per launch was between 450million and 1.5 billion.
Just look at the payload capacity for the SLS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
>150,000 to 290,000 lb (70,000 to 130,000 kg)
Compare that to the spaceshuttle
>27,500 kg (60,600 lb)
Or the same rocket they used to get to the moon..
Saturn Five Esitmated cost in todays money is 500m
>310,000 lb (140,000 kg)
So even using the lower figure of 450m, it is still not some great success because of its tiny payload capacity.
>>54229550
Remind me again whose rockets put the first thing in space or the first living thing in space or the first man in space or the first woman in space or the first spacewalk or the first probe in lunar orbit or the first probe on the moon or the first rover on the moon or the first probe on mars or the first probe on venus or the first space station or the first probe in interplanetary space or the first probe in the asteroid belt or the first international space station and whose rockets take american astronauts to the ISS? The only thing the US did was a couple flybys first or waste hundreds of billions of dollars to put men on the moon which more and more americans don't even believe happened. Plus even nasa admits the focus on the space shuttle set space exploration back a decade. >>54229784
Something about this old propaganda poster feels memeable.
>>54230167
>No need to be upset comrade
>>54230167
>>54230330
What? I thought you wanted to show me your Pokémons.
>>54230167
The 60s must've been amazing for soviet kids, all those televised launches for propaganda together with soviet shitty ufo movies.
>>54230160
>Remind me again whose rockets put the first thing in space
Remind me again what that has to do with the Buran and the N1 which were completely failures and all that I was specifically talking about you butthurt fag?
>Plus even nasa admits the focus on the space shuttle set space exploration back a decade.
I never said otherwise; just merely that it actually functioned and was used. Unlike the Buran and N1.
>>54229784
Dude, I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying or have said, get that through thick skull.
I'm merely saying that despite the Shuttle being the wrong direction for NASA to take, it actually worked. It took crew and payloads into space. Far more than either the Buran or N1 could lay claim to.
I was specifically referring to those two space projects in those 3 images.
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>>54230640
fucking saved
>>54230680
It's a quick & dirty edit, the caption still says "Fatherland heroes - Glory!"
>>54230789
it's like the future of planet of the apes or something
>>54230160
I honestly thought it was common knowledge that the first person in space was Yuri Gagarin (?)
My coworkers didn't know and were surprised I knew such things.
>>54231048
I used to know that when I was little and going through my space is fucking cool phase. Now it's tucked away in that part of memory where if you asked who was first in space, I'd be like, "fuck, I know this. fuck fuck fuck..."
>>54229149
>communist consumer child porn
>>54230810
what if i told you, this is the future and we are the apes
>>54229149
And just think, we have made absolutely no progress since 1969.
>>54233620
What do you consider "progress?"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34442956/thousands-of-nasa-apollo-mission-photos-uploaded-online
>>54229550
>None of those Russian shuttles/rockets ever did anything.
Seriously? They did exactly what they were designed to do. Ensure the USSR remained in technological lockstep with the USA in case the USA suddenly weaponised space.
The Russian shuttle was never meant to go on missions, just to ensure that anything the Americans could do, the Russians could too.
At this, it was a resounding success. It kept Roscosmos alive and kicking, and now look: it's the only (manned) way to/from the ISS.
>>54230167
memes for her pleasure
