To: balls
It’s amazing what happens when you build in robust, graceful failure modes into a design, instead of the usual way NASA pushes for bleeding edge performance, without realizing that better is the enemy of good enough. The Russians are better at elegant but robust design, because they had less sophisticated and reliable tech to work with - they planned for it to fail partially, but still complete the mission.
25 posted on
09/08/2007 12:52:54 PM PDT by
anymouse
To: anymouse
There are Russian robots on Mars??
26 posted on
09/08/2007 1:00:42 PM PDT by
tet68
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