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vrukt:
It's true, that 20 engine design was a little insane.

Do you know about the replacement engines that were never flown, the Nk-33s? Well at least never flown until the fall of the USSR, and that wonderful 90s sell off period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLg1QUq5GQM

There's a good documentary on it.

I've actually been wondering if Putin won't go back and charge someone for selling these engines, but I'm pretty sure it's the same people running his space program now, so he may want to keep the engineers happy.

Elon Musks latest engine;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)#Merlin_1D

Is said to use that same technology developed through the painful soviet test programs.

Botsareus:
Thank you for the link Vrukt. Good stuff.  :)

Why can't they build a couple N1s and build a moon base? They still got the blue prints, don't they? Or did they burn them? It is looking like they can also even have 1.5x original mass on the top of this things now. Build a moon base!

Botsareus:
I was always gov't. neutral, I do not care who does it. Can Americans hack some blue prints plz?

Numsgil:
Sounds like there were some problems with the design...

Botsareus:
According to the vid, they where flushed out right before they cut the program off.

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