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Re: Panic at the Pumps
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Originally Posted by Chris
Ah, the old "governments must only think of one thing at a time" argument ...  |
No, the old "dead cat" stratagem… 
Also, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about (as a teenager, I was an Apollo mission fanatic).
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the plan would “create more jobs by putting rocket boosters the size of a Saturn V’s F1 under British space businesses”
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The F1 was a rocket engine, not a booster (which usually refers to a stage), and there were five of them in the Saturn V first stage, and it was eighteen and a half feet in length.
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Last edited by Hugh; 28-09-2021 at 16:34.
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