There was plenty of oxidizer in the cabin; just about everything else counts as fuel – cables, insulation, textiles, even people, brutal as it may sound.
If you're going to post "facts", please make double sure to get them straight.
Apollo 1 did neither explode, nor did it take off.
The capsule caught fire during a training session, killing the three astronauts inside.
"One of" the most expensive is true for everything, ever, if you think about it.
Cassini-Huygens certainly was a highly ambitious project, which may help explain the costs. Taking inflation into account, missions before and after have been equally or more expensive.
Explorer 1 did not "rotate left AND right" which is physically impossible. It started tumbling because of precession effects that simply were not well understood at the time. It should not come as a surprise that by exploring the boundaries of science and technology, new things will be learned.
Saturn V: 33,000 kN, payload to LEO: 118t, to TLI: 48t, flown 13 times;
Energia: 34,810 kN, payload to LEO: 100t, to TLI: -, flown twice.
Ariane V can launch up to eight secondary payloads with an ASAP (Ariane Structure for Auxiliary Payloads). Galileo satellites are launched in groups of four at a time.
And Yuri Gagarin being mistaken as an alien, yeah, that's a nice cozy story. Just about what I too would tell my folks back home when I came back from space, whistling patriotic songs all the way down ;)
@Diver "there wasn't any fuel in the cabin"
There was plenty of oxidizer in the cabin; just about everything else counts as fuel – cables, insulation, textiles, even people, brutal as it may sound.
5.7 years agoIf you're going to post "facts", please make double sure to get them straight.
5.7 years agoApollo 1 did neither explode, nor did it take off.
The capsule caught fire during a training session, killing the three astronauts inside.
"One of" the most expensive is true for everything, ever, if you think about it.
Cassini-Huygens certainly was a highly ambitious project, which may help explain the costs. Taking inflation into account, missions before and after have been equally or more expensive.
Explorer 1 did not "rotate left AND right" which is physically impossible. It started tumbling because of precession effects that simply were not well understood at the time. It should not come as a surprise that by exploring the boundaries of science and technology, new things will be learned.
Saturn V: 33,000 kN, payload to LEO: 118t, to TLI: 48t, flown 13 times;
Energia: 34,810 kN, payload to LEO: 100t, to TLI: -, flown twice.
Ariane V can launch up to eight secondary payloads with an ASAP (Ariane Structure for Auxiliary Payloads). Galileo satellites are launched in groups of four at a time.
And Yuri Gagarin being mistaken as an alien, yeah, that's a nice cozy story. Just about what I too would tell my folks back home when I came back from space, whistling patriotic songs all the way down ;)