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The USSR was first in space, weren't they? The technological advances of the USSR can't all be stolen unless they first invented time machines.
by Drakim 9y ago
The USSR was first in space, weren't they? The technological advances of the USSR can't all be stolen unless they first invented time machines.
- oblio 9y agoWell, to be honest, a good chunk of what got both the USA and the USSR into space was "stolen" from Germany, anyway. So no need for any time machines :)
- izacus 9y agoThat really downplays all the work both USA and USSR did to scale the V2 designs into something that can get payloads into orbit (and the opposing lands). There are a few good books on what Korolevs teams did which are pretty fascinating in hindsight, especially due to limited access to computers in USSR. (Obviously sources about the US space programs are about 100x more numerous in the western world :) )
- pps43 9y agoSemyorka (the first rocket that delivered a payload to orbit) has very little in common with V2. Fuel, staging, control, launch facilities - pretty much everything is different. The soviets did start by copying the V2, but immediately after that switched to original designs.
- buzzier 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky