Troll away my friend. Russia had us over a barrel and over-charged us like crazy for rides to ISS. Not to mention, one of the first things they did is threaten to crash the ISS because the US didn't support Russia pulverizing women and children.
Having worked on US contracts to build alternative space delivery vehicles, whatever the Russians were charging was surely less than the money pissed away at home. Plus, they probably inspired Musk in the first place.
One would need to ask Musk or any member of his SpaceX team for particulars in this specific case. But speaking in general as an engineer, anyone getting something to work well is an inspiration to you.
You made the assertion. Point us to the reusable space craft that could have potentially inspired Elon Musk. Or where he's said he was inspired by a Russian concept of a reusable space craft.
Thank you for your comments. I would have thought my surmise about Musk would have been understood by any craftsman. And since everyone in their own way is hopefully one, be it a baker, writer or engineer, then it would be universal. Yet your response says it is not so.
Your "surmise" is based on nothing. Less than nothing. Musk inspires me because he's created something that's never existed before in human history. Russia didn't invent genocide, but over the past 100 years, they've turned it into an art form.
Yet the Soyuz craft worked. Plus it gave the US a reason to cooperate with the Russians. Had NATO done similar the world would be a safer place.
Troll away my friend. Russia had us over a barrel and over-charged us like crazy for rides to ISS. Not to mention, one of the first things they did is threaten to crash the ISS because the US didn't support Russia pulverizing women and children.
Having worked on US contracts to build alternative space delivery vehicles, whatever the Russians were charging was surely less than the money pissed away at home. Plus, they probably inspired Musk in the first place.
They have never had a reusable space craft. So they didn't inspire shit.
One would need to ask Musk or any member of his SpaceX team for particulars in this specific case. But speaking in general as an engineer, anyone getting something to work well is an inspiration to you.
You made the assertion. Point us to the reusable space craft that could have potentially inspired Elon Musk. Or where he's said he was inspired by a Russian concept of a reusable space craft.
It was a surmise, not an assertion. Plus, I did not confine it to reusable craft.
So you have nothing. Just a troll to defend the Russians. Amazing. I hope they pay you in euros or dollars, not rubles.
Thank you for your comments. I would have thought my surmise about Musk would have been understood by any craftsman. And since everyone in their own way is hopefully one, be it a baker, writer or engineer, then it would be universal. Yet your response says it is not so.
Your "surmise" is based on nothing. Less than nothing. Musk inspires me because he's created something that's never existed before in human history. Russia didn't invent genocide, but over the past 100 years, they've turned it into an art form.