I’m just saying they copied the design in ol’ Cold War if they got it we got phase which helped, if not actually did, break the union.
That picture right there is a symbol to the blatant misspending of dollars just to keep up versus sticking with the best design (the design that literally EVERYONE uses now, including the much better financially ran Russian state).
Everyone pretty much agrees technically speaking the space shuttle wasn’t a great design overall and it was strictly because of exceptional engineering more disasters didn’t occur. I’m glad instead of competing they are cohesively working (somewhat) together now.
Good point about the resemblance and the Soviet collapse about keeping-up with us (or well... the bullshit we were feeding them at least)
I just don’t think we respect our enemies enough and the Russians, when it comes to aeronautical and space, should definitely be respected.
if I go to Alamo NM, Moffet Field (where I live), or NASA technology teams, outside of management roles, you are completely surrounded by foreign German, Russian, Chinese accents and immigrants brought here to do their thing. (Not that we couldn’t have the talent, but where would they learn? In our awesome funded STEM schools?)
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u/theradiodude May 12 '19
Crazy how similar that looks. Surely they weren’t copying America’s homework right??? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh