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

[Charles Vick]

Atlas-5 uses the RD-180 

Many of the designers that lead the work on the NK-33 under Kuznetsov are
still alive with some probably retired but they helped start this new effort

 

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[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Keith Gottschalk
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Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Soyuz-1 to fly with Moon Race-era engines

 

   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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