Has rocket technology improved at all in the last 40-50 years?

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yes

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Yes

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>>8533419
There is just no improvement upon russian engineering. Unless they themselves do it.

>>8533419
what the fuck do you think?

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Yes

>>8533427
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>>8533893

Saturnv is superior to all of these.

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No.

>>8533995
In terms of just being bad ass or in terms of efficiency?

Thermodynamics is such an asshole

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>>8533419
>implying

>>8533995
Saturn V is just big. Other than that it was reasonably reliable, but had no special virtues. It certainly wasn't cheap. It's not hard to build a big rocket, just expensive. The scaling factors favor a large rocket.

>>8533995
>Saturnv is superior to all of these.
nothing is superior to the Soyuz rocket, nor will it ever be in the next 50 years.

The rocket proved it's efficiency with almost 1000 launches in the last 40 years, with no passanger casualties and only two failures.

>>8534798
That's kinda depressing. It shows that we haven't improved at all.