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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > RSF: The Great Space Space > post ur favorite rockets
 
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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Space shuttle

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Comedy options: shuttle centaur, delta 4 heavy

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2021 04:51
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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 I worked with a lot of dcx vets

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Pogo oscillation is a bitch and Saturn v just got lucky that it didn't get wrecked by pogo

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 okay. actually. this is my favorite rocket
https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1361760041301200897?s=20
because my engine is on the bottom 😍

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

LostCosmonaut posted:

Even more insane ideas were considered at one point; http://www.astronautix.com/h/hibex.html


That later evolved into Sprint, which got as far as testing. It was launched with an explosive driven piston, and accelerated fast enough that it glowed from aerodynamic heating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA

You know it's the good poo poo when the slow mo looks fast

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Blackhawk posted:

The electron :D



Mostly because I helped build it, also because it's the first entirely carbon-composite rocket to fly to orbit and the first with 3D printed engines. Also because it's so tiny, I've personally picked up and carried one of the engines myself and pushed the entire rocket (unloaded of course) on some wheeled trolleys between the hanger and launch pad.

Hell yeah that rules. California or new Zealand?

* # ¿ Feb 28, 2021 05:06
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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Blackhawk posted:

New Zealand, been at the place since 2015 and a loooot has changed since then. Also you worked on the BE-4? Nice. I often have a go at reverse engineering other people's engines from the photos :P

that rules. I spent a few years on BE-4, yeah. Talk about a company changing a lot in a short time, though, my goodness. Rutherfords are adorable and I like how the parts are labeled :3:

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Shuttle got hosed by the dod

* # ¿ Mar 28, 2021 03:45
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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Also the Soviets got loads of nazis too. USA got von Braun, the vehicle genius, but the soviets got the engine genius. American engines didn't catch up until ssme (in some ways) and more conclusively raptor and be-4, and this is all compared to Soviet engines from the 70s

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

 Balloon tanks own

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