XPost: uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.policy   
   From: usenet@stephenthomascole.com   
      
   Spike  wrote:   
   > On 19/12/2015 08:37, RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 15 December, British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake   
   >> arrived at the International Space Station   
   >   
   > Nice of the RSGB to give such prominence to yet another success for   
   > Korolev's R7 design. Now approaching some 2000 launches, it's seen off   
   > the best that the US can produce.   
   >   
   > When the USSR collapsed, the US went on a shopping spree, and in one   
   > facility they discovered rows and rows of ready-to-use rocket engines   
   > using metallurgy beyond anything the US had, and were staggered to find   
   > these engines were /closed-cycle/, another technology the US had   
   > struggled with. They bought the lot, and the engines powered 'US' rockets   
   for some time.   
      
   The Soviets may have had some bloody good science, OM, but they also had   
   very long queues for bread and milk. Blessed tyranny, eh?   
      
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