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[Takeovers]

A new rocket with old engines.

I mentioned the new Atares rocket by the manufacturer Orbital Sciences in my last post. Some info about Antares you may find intriguing:

Do you remember the Soviet N1-Rocket? It was strictly secret at the time but info was released after breakdown of the Soviet Union. It was the rocket built to compete with the NASA Saturn 5 for the flight to the moon. The N1 was a monster.

N1 (rocket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



It had 30 engines and was much bigger than Saturn 5 but had less payload as it was inefficient. That is if it had ever flown. 4 of them were built and all 4 exploded on the pad or few seconds after launch, destroying the pad and killing a lot of people. After 4 attempts the program was stopped. But over 30 engines were still in store until Orbital Sciences bought them and is now flying them more than 40 years later on their Antares.

[socal]

A new rocket with old engines.

I mentioned the new Atares rocket by the manufacturer Orbital Sciences in my last post. Some info about Antares you may find intriguing:

Do you remember the Soviet N1-Rocket? It was strictly secret at the time but info was released after breakdown of the Soviet Union. It was the rocket built to compete with the NASA Saturn 5 for the flight to the moon. The N1 was a monster.

N1 (rocket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



It had 30 engines and was much bigger than Saturn 5 but had less payload as it was inefficient. That is if it had ever flown. 4 of them were built and all 4 exploded on the pad or few seconds after launch, destroying the pad and killing a lot of people. After 4 attempts the program was stopped. But over 30 engines were still in store until Orbital Sciences bought them and is now flying them more than 40 years later on their Antares.

Fuck... Who really won the cold war.

The Bolsheviks space program is still running and the seppos is out to pasture..