Did you know that the soviets used to have a potato powered rocket?

It was a part of the Spudnik programme.

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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 8 pts · 2y

One of their first rockets was a slightly modified copy of the German v-2 rocket, which was fuelled by alcohol. Unsure what the soviets made their alcohol fuel out of, but it would at least have been possible to make that with potatoes...

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

The best part is after re-entry, the cosmonauts had baked potatoes for rations.

Gazumi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Were there many spec-taters?

cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Ross Gellar approved