<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">I hope it works but one thing that makes me nervous is the first stage has 27 small engines, that's 27 ways things can go wrong. The Apollo moon rocket had 5 large engines, the USSR tried to make something comparable with their N1-L3 rocket but the first stage had 30 small engines instead of 5 large ones and it blew up every time they <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​tried​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div> to launch it.<br><br> John K Clark</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(91,91,91);font-family:FreeSans,Arimo,'Droid Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(91,91,91);font-family:FreeSans,Arimo,'Droid Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22px">27 first-stage engines</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:37 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-4448174190065146240WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wooohooo, did you guys already discuss this while I was away?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.space.com/39164-elon-musk-unveils-falcon-heavy-rocket-photos.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20171221-sdc" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/39164-<wbr>elon-musk-unveils-falcon-<wbr>heavy-rocket-photos.html?utm_<wbr>source=sdc-newsletter&utm_<wbr>medium=email&utm_campaign=<wbr>20171221-sdc</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Good luck and evolution-speed Mr. Musk.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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