MikeyToo

I remember reading the original thread and your posts and thinking how good it (the writing) was. Any chance you'll do a novelization of the story?

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I hope there is. There's such a dearth of original movies in Hollywood. It seems like all they're capable of producing is reboots/remakes and comic book/toy movies.

Russian/Soviet launchers have almost always used multiple core/engine configurations, going back to the R-7, due to problems they'd run into scaling into larger motors. Bigger motors mean higher pressure/temperature/etc requiring changes to components. At one point during the development of the big-assed motor the US used (F-1) they were putting explosives on the engine to simulate the combustion instabilities that would intermittently cause the engine to fail catastrophically. These instabilities were caused by the fact that the thrust chamber was just BIG. You can't really appreciate the size of an F-1 until you stand next to one.

Edited because the first version sucked