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"Russia has excellent rocket engineering & best engine currently flying," Musk declared, noting that a "reusable version" of the Angara rocket in particular "would be great."
The Tesla billionaire was responding to a somewhat shade-throwing piece by Ars Technica, which framed Roscosmos as 'threatened' by the newly-invigorated American space program.
Their evidence for this deep psychological profile, alleging a Russian inferiority complex on seeing the shiny new Dragon next to their reliable, Soviet-vintage Soyuz? A Russia-based space expert's comments and a Roscosmos tweet congratulating NASA on the successful docking, that underscored the fact that "flight safety must be above reproach."
Musk didn't seem to play into the attempt to manufacture a rocket rivalry and, referring to his Raptor engine recently beating the chamber pressure of Russia's RD-180, reiterated that "an engine shouldn't count until it flies."
Comment: NASA agrees: America will continue to use Russian rocket engines to fly into space
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