/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14819505
I don't think it it's a weight issue, although carting around a rocket built on top of a pair of 500t+ SRBs can't make the job any easier. I think it's just that all soviet rockets were designed to be transported horizontally. Most of them were built in factories around Moscow before they took the long ride to Kazakhstan, so switching things around to vertical integration once they got there would have just added extra complexity where it wasn't needed.

>>14819493
I'm pretty sure the Baikonur trains are diesel but I've never heard anything one way or another.