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kamaal on Oct 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket

>>But the USSR falled, and this tech will never be recovered.

Ugly fallout of politics. By the way what happened to all the technology and intellectual power?

I mean shouldn't Russia still have it?

justin66 on Oct 17, 2012 | [–]

Not really politics. Those rockets didn't work very well. (did the N1 ever have a successful flight?)

Russia had plenty of stuff that DID work well, and managed to make a business out of selling launch services.

mbpp on Oct 17, 2012 | [–]

http://youtu.be/WmR1QRGeBV4?t=2m7s

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