Re:Dmitry Rogozin on SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
by mlindner on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:09PM
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Yes but the rocket between them is identical, which is historically the most dangerous part of space travel.
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Re:Dmitry Rogozin on SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
by ceejayoz on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:48PM
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You can slice and dice the numbers in many different ways.
Russia is gonna put heavy emphasis on the long history of the Soyuz family. SpaceX is gonna point out things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09#Air_leak ("A 2 mm hole in the orbital module was discovered, later stated to have been 'hidden with a low-quality patch job.'") and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-10 ("aborted shortly after launch on 11 October 2018 due to a failure of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle boosters") as a counterpoint.
Ultimately, Russia can comfortably say "we're pretty good at doing rocket launches". SpaceX is getting there themselves.