[FPSPACE] Soyuz-1 to fly with Moon Race-era engines

Bart Hendrickx bhen at scarlet.be
Thu Sep 10 16:36:25 EDT 2009


 

Anatoly Zak wrote :

 

>It looks like the Soyuz-1 rocket, equipped with engines from the Soviet N-1
rocket has a good chance to launch as early as 2011. It means that NK-33
engines >built as long as four decades ago will finally get a chance to fly.
Here is what I could glance at MAKS-2009 show and couple of other sources:

It may end up flying  around the same time as Orbital Sciences' Taurus-2,
which also has NK-33 engines on the first stage.

 

Bart Hendrickx

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