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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

pseudonymous blowhard

Re: Re:The simple fact is

I'm with you on the appreciation for Russian science and engineering, but the idea that pre-Soviet Russia was at a "middle-ages-level" of development isn't correct.

Just to take one example, this guy was doing work on rocketry in the late 19th Century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

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