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I always find that comparison disingenuous as flight has nothing to do with rocketry. I think it might be less exciting but more instructive to talk about time
by ambicapter 11y ago
I always find that comparison disingenuous as flight has nothing to do with rocketry. I think it might be less exciting but more instructive to talk about time between first submarines (keeping humans alive in a hostile environment) to spacecraft.
- randyrand 11y agoSure it does. They're both complicated feats of engineering.
- randyrand 11y agoSure it does. They're both complicated feats of engineering.
- WalterBright 11y agoRocketry grew out of the aviation industry, not the submarine industry.
- derefr 11y agoThe principles of rocketry were powering fireworks and guns a long time before they were powering flight. :)