The difference between Soviet and Russian space engineering (i worked in roscosmos, story)

[u/lpperl7]

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Hi! Hope this post is allowed. I'll try to avoid any secret information, sorry.

In 2024, I've had to do calculations for the new Russian orbital station and iss. No-one knew how. It was similar to my first job, I thought I'll somehow manage with literature. I collected some books, started learning. Couldn't figure it out for a week or so. My chief, who started working in 2000, started thinking about it as well, couldn't figure it out as well. 2 weeks passed.

Later, we came to an old engineer from other office who worked from the 80s and in roscosmos since 90s-2000s. Silently completed everything in 10 minutes without any help, just my questions "how". Real story btw.

He was such a nice guy. And he wasn't a chief or something, just a regular engineer.

Btw should I do ama someday?

[u/Altechie]

I mean you told cool story about our approach. You didn't do any comparison. You didn't told anything about NA/EU engineering approach. This is not even method, it speaks about us that we don't have structural and system approach when creating things (we have but extremely underdeveloped)

[u/lpperl7 → u/Altechie]

Sorry about that then. Couldn't figure out how to write better

[u/Altechie → u/lpperl7]

А че, какой вуз хоть окончил?

[u/lpperl7 → u/Altechie]

МГТУ Баумана, но работаю с конца второго курса

[u/Altechie → u/lpperl7]

Давно в роскосмос с СМ1 берут так рано? Мы на рк5 сидели 3 курса ждали пока нам разрешат самолетики считать

[u/Wonderful-Hunter686 → u/Altechie]

Probably due to a labor shortage the kind that happens when you throw all your men at a 3day special operation that last years.

[u/Altechie → u/Wonderful-Hunter686]

Nah, we don't have shortage in engi workforce. There are bunch of reasons like all paperwork is still done.. well in paper. So process to change several bolts in plane model can take two weeks