Shuttle

3 of 4 N1 launches failed because of the unreliable turbopump assembly. Launching a rocket with unstable engines was like playing Russian roulette, one of OKB-1's lead engineers even wrote they should've stopped the whole program until the engines were finalized. Unfortunately, only Korolev could do that with his authority. Also, the whole program cost 2.5 billion $ by 1970 while Apollo budget was MUCH more. And, of course, don't forget about closed cycle engines that are so good americans use them on their rockets nowadays. So, I personally think soviets made two achievements: they've almost finalised 100t rocket with 10 times smaller budget compared to USA (2.5 vs 25 billion) and they've also managed to create extremely efficient closed cycle kerosene-oxygen engines that, as far as I know, have no alternatives in the world

He is at least a good politician. And I guess you don't know everything about Yeltsin. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/books/25bookready.html But Putin is also one of the biggest corrupters in the world, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20130408172047.shtml http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/strongman-putin-is-no-match-for-corruption.html

That's what happens when the president of your country is an alcoholic

It is a very interesting thread, I read it all. I don't know if memoirs of soviet engineers are available in english but Mishin stated the whole budget of N1 program was 2.5 billion $ by 1970. And the first big financial investment was reveived only in 1964. Current state of Energia: http://i.imgur.com/zE36L71.jpg Current state of Buran: http://i.imgur.com/HzUHzg5.jpg

Could anyone write community manager's answer about Q&A-phase and fixed bugs, please? I can't understand what he says in the stream.

Some time ago I tried to dock a space shuttle to a station with a docking port that was attached to the cubic strut and got very similar result: my shuttle and station exploded. Once I attached a docking port of the shuttle to the fuel tank, everything went fine

Levelord , http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/43342-How-do-I-get-earlier-version-of-KSP-with-Steam Auto update can also be disabled

Don't forget you can always copy KSP folder from Steam directory to any folder on your hard drive and launch KSP from there without Steam running

Make sure MechJeb is installed vertically - I guess That guy who builds stuff wants to say the same thing I installed MechJeb horizontally one time - and it made the rocket fly like the crashed Proton - after I installed Mechjeb vertically the problem disappeared.

I think I've almost finalised my 390 tons launcher

CoriW , wow, I never thought about it! I build rolling rockets since KSP0.11 or so, I'll follow your advice. Thank you!

Russian google, not logged in:

Set throttle to 100%, press space, open the resource tab and take a look at the number in brackets at the right end of the green bar. That's resource consumption per second

https://twitter.com/Maxmaps/status/360083147884462080

I want .21 now just like many other people in this thread

I don't like this word, it sounds weird Good word, I like it!

Can KSP appear in the Flash Sales with 75% discount later?

stupid_chris, could you, please, provide a screenshot of the payload? Kaspersky blocks .craft file for some reason

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/31923-0-20-Mammoth-Rocket-Family

I saw a riper long time ago but I am afraid I lost the link and that reaper is not compatible with 0.20 version

Is Buran ok?

If you want to ascent from sea level on Eve, you need 200t ascent vehicle. That's quite a lot

Your rocket looks awesome! Here is another pic of Vulkan:

Angular velocity sensors wired up with the wrong polarity remind me of the second Energia launch when the gyroscope block was installed upside down. The most interesting thing is that the block couldn't be installed in a wrong way but some smart guy made a special adapter for it. This is the info from the russian Energia wiki page, I haven't found any info about this accident in english wiki