That was a classic.
>disgruntled, underpaid bydlo worker at Roscosmos purposely installed the guidance package upside down
SPACE
Jaxson Garcia
Joseph Harris
MASA is doing great
Jackson Foster
Should have one by 2030.
Zachary Gray
Elijah Taylor
>mfw an Amerilard had to buy Russian rocket engines near me
Asher Walker
More recently, the Progress that got destroyed last December when the third stage exploded.
Isaiah Foster
Si
Alexander Bell
Some of those Atlas Vs have been used to launch DoD satellites and Russia became butthurt about that, partially because Putin back when he first took over, had banned sales of defense-related hardware to the US, and although RD-170 engines aren't a defense-related item per-se, the use of them for DoD launches exploits a loophole there.
Of course not everyone in the US was enthusiastic either about using Russian engines to launch s33krit military payloads. The reason this happened in the end was because the Shuttle program had wrecked our ability to manufacture rocket engines, nothing new had been developed since the Apollo era.
Joseph Green
One of the best things out country has ever done since independence. Even turns a profit. It's called ISRO
Josiah Bell
Why don't we just build Saturn Vs again