BBCNEWS The Context June 4, 2024 20:41:00
Dashing down the runway, on reheat, trying to take off. that is how much oomph... i could not have think of the scientific, technical term, but oomph seems to cover it! 33 engines. is this everything they have? are they throwing everything at it? the nearest analogy, actually, is an old soviet rocket called the n1, which the soviets were going to use to send cosmonauts to the moon back in the 1960s. 0bviously, they lost the race to the moon, in part because they could not control the 30 engines that they had at the base of the n1. so it is really hard to co—ordinate those engines. they have ...