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

[Keith Gottschalk]

   So NK-33 engines today propel all of the Atlas 5, Taurus, & Soyuz 1? Is
that a sort of record, as well as the forty years vintage?

   If any of the original designers, engineers & technicians of 1969 are
still alive, I hope they get a bonus on their humble pensions!     - Keith
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Anatoly Zak <agzak at optonline.net> wrote:

> Good point, so after N-1 and Kistler, NK-33 has two more opportunities to
> fly.
>
>
> On 9/10/09 10:36 PM, "Bart Hendrickx" <bhen at scarlet.be> wrote:
>
>
> 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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