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Interesting points. My (limited) understanding is that Sputnik was launched by a rocket designed in Nazi Germany and copied with minimal modifications. I'd sa
by alive-or-not 14y ago
Interesting points.
My (limited) understanding is that Sputnik was launched by a rocket designed in Nazi Germany and copied with minimal modifications.
I'd say the outsourcing craze we see in the recent years is very similar to the transfer of factories and technologies to USSR and Germany in the period 1929-1939.
- huhtenberg 14y agoYep, your understanding of Soviet space history is pretty limited. That part you got right.
- alive-or-not 14y agoCare to correct me than? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_%28missile%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_%28missile%29 R-1 was the Russian name for the German V-2, Sputnik was launched by R-7.
- jiggy2011 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
- oddx 14y agoV-2 is progenitor of all modern rockets, but it's difficult to call it "minimal modifications": compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fus%C3%A9e_V2.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fus%C3%A9e_V2.jpg ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V-2_rocket_diagram_%28with_English_labels%29.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V-2_rocket_diagram_%28with... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R-7_%287A%29_misil.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R-7_%287A%29_misil.svg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_8K71PS_grey.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_8K71PS_grey.svg