[FPSPACE] Re: Red Files: The Secret Soviet Moon Mission

[Chuck Donaldson]

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Subject: Re: Red Files: The Secret Soviet Moon Mission


> In a message dated 1999/10/12 19:16:08 Eastern Daylight Time,
> bhen@village.uunet.be writes:
>
> << Kuznetsov's team blamed it on a "steel diaphragm of a pressure
>  pulsation sensor" (literally) that had entered the LOX turbopump. >>
>
> Bart,
>      Thanks for the added information.  Whether Chertok is correct, or
> Kuznetsov, or the folks we talked to at Baikonur, according to Mishin's
notes
> within a second of liftoff, KORD was shutting down engines.  And, in the
> video of that launch, the one you got shortly after the trip, you can see
the
> holes in the aft skirt, presumably caused by these exploding engines while
> the N-1 was still on its way up, well before the flight ended back on the
pad.
>      Cheers,
> Ed