Alternate Spacecraft Thread

[Thande]

Indeed. Slapping A and B together does NOT form C!

Huh, clearly you have no experience with rocket science

The Atlas V, America's current premier unmanned launcher.

Its second stage derived from earlier Atlas launchers. Its first stage engines? Russian. Taken from the Zenit.

The Zenit? Ukrainian. Nowadays used as a launcher on its own because the breakup of the Soviet Union meant the factory ended up in a separate country. But what was it intended for?

Strapon booster for Energiya, here used to launch the Soviet space shuttle Buran.

These days, when there's little money to research new technologies, rocket science is nothing but putting A and B together to make C.

 

[Petike]

These days, when there's little money to research new technologies, rocket science is nothing but putting A and B together to make C.

True, but there still is some need for modification involved, isn't it ?

 

[Thande]

True, but there still is some need for modification involved, isn't it ?

Well yes but to go back to the Saturn-Shuttle, that would have required modification to make the Saturn V first stage recoverable.

 

[Caesar]

Well yes but to go back to the Saturn-Shuttle, that would have required modification to make the Saturn V first stage recoverable.

You're using logic and reason, Thande...