N-1 Moon Rocket

youmotto Says:

May 1, 2012 - Atlas-5 rocket equipped with an RD-180 engine

youmotto Says:

May 1, 2012 - Atlas-5 rocket equipped with an RD-180 engine

youmotto Says:

May 1, 2012 - Four Russian-made rocket engines will soon be on their way across the Atlantic to NASA. The high-tech RD-180 boosters are to be flown to America onboard the world's largest cargo plane. Atlas-5 rocket equipped with an RD-180 engine

youmotto Says:

May 1, 2012 - Russia ships four Atlas rocket engines to US!!!!!! RD-180

Russia2010 Says:

Oct 22, 2011 - looks like u are an fucking brainless fat americunt faggot! withOUT any kind of arguments!

xGmart Says:

Sep 21, 2011 - I was just reading about this on space.com interesting read.

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @flybywire09: None.

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @spacegeek5: And you think you know everything there is to learn a LEO, do you?

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @Jimbob8971: You know, you really ought to research these things before you open up. According to, for instance, aerospaceweb(.)org/question/history/q0114.shtml , 24 US astronauts and 8 cosmonauts have died in service, four of them in T-38s. One was a passenger, one caught a goose. 

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @flybywire09: The numbers are in the single digits, just as ours were before the shuttle. See en(.)wikipedia(.)org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @Jimbob8971: No, the US barely knew about the N-1, and only from high altitude U-S photos. Hell, some Russian rocket doctors claim the N-1 was a fantasy, because it was top secret from start to finish. If we'd had anyone on the inside, they'd have been working the ICBM side of Baikonur, not the moon side.

puncheex Says:

May 12, 2011 - @dajsinjo: Yeah, it had better thrust than the Saturn, but it's net weight/fuel weight ratio was higher, too; altogether it's payload to orbit was lower. In all honesty Korolev knew he wouldn't be able to do a moon mission with it. See astronautix(.)com/articles/whynrace.htm .

spacegeek5 Says:

May 8, 2011 - not space stations thats the whole problem with our space program, they lower our capabilities to only LEO which is not good they should go to mars to solve this problem

spacegeek5 Says:

May 8, 2011 - not space stations thats the whole problem with our space program, they lower our capabilities to only LEO which is not good they should go to mars

wirysage Says:

Mar 29, 2011 - where's your evidence of sabotage?

flybywire09 Says:

Mar 4, 2011 - Sabotaged by US agents? Looks like I won this argument.

flybywire09 Says:

Mar 3, 2011 - No info on cosmonaut deaths was ever released from the former USSR from Glasnost. I've seen projected numbers in the 1000s. NASA's missions were in the public eye, the Soviets were not. Based on the known deaths, and number of flights the US has a much lower percentage of deaths per flight than the USSR, almost 40% less, which is the stat that really matters. The N1; no successful missions, the Buran; no successful missions. Why are you such an advocate for the Soviets anyway?

flybywire09 Says:

Mar 3, 2011 - Google the number of cosmonaut deaths, you'll get a much higher number and on top of that there's no telling how many deaths were never reported. The USSR had a bad habit of hiding numbers.

aSimulatedHigh Says:

Feb 27, 2011 - I understand that putting people on other celstial bodies isn't Russia's forte, maybe they should start building these again but repurposed to lift large space stations?

flybywire09 Says:

Feb 26, 2011 - Let's see, slavery ended in the United States 1864, so none. Nice try though. What's that number of how many people the Soviet Union killed? 50 million?

flybywire09 Says:

Jan 27, 2011 - I wonder how much slave labor was involved and how many people died in vein building those rockets.

dajsinjo Says:

Aug 1, 2009 - You are wright, here is something from wikipedia: The control system was primarily based on differential throttling of the engines, the outer ring for pitch and yaw, the inner six on gimballing mounts for roll ; Block A produced 43 meganewtons (9,700,000 lbf)[1] of thrust. This exceeded the 33.7 meganewtons (7,600,000 lbf)[2] thrust of the Saturn V ; Mas of N1-L3 2788 t, Saturn V 3039 t

ollyk22 Says:

Jul 31, 2009 - Was the number of engines purly down to the fact they didn't gimble, so engines were individually throttled to maintain attitude.

dajsinjo Says:

May 16, 2009 - too many engines, very good engines but too small for that big first stage. F1 engine was key for success of Saturn 5 and American lunar program. Too bad that RD-170 didn't came sooner