Channel 4 documentry i saw few years ago i think it was called "rockets which came in from the cold" or similar + search google for nk33 and rocket they used recirculated gases to increase effiecency and therefour thrust, the key to there success was the experimental procedure used i build it try it it blows up change slghtly blows up after longer time... and so on until it works. Others looked at the problem couldnt see a way to make it work and said it was impossible, hence the survay team not believing the claims they knew that it was impossible.
Thank you i think i'll stick with physics anything over 100 words gives me a headache.;)
And yes i did notice the sarcasm i just didnt rise.
The soviets fixed there fuelling and thrust balancing issuses in 1973 with the nk33 engines but the americans had already landed, so they tried to pretend that they had never tried to send a man there, hence the caring comment in above post.
As a side note the finallly perfected engines for the N-1 the Nk33 and 43 are the most advanced and highest performance liquid O2/kerosene engines ever built and when they where ordered to be destroyed with the rest of the hardware, to aid the cover up, the enginners who built them hid them away. Then after the end of the cold war in the mid ninties an american firm scouting out russia for space services heard rumours of rocket engines with to them unbelievable performance figures, so they called there guides bluff and asked to see them, of course he took them to this desserted whearhouse and when they stepped inside one of the americans described the site as "a forrest of rocket engines as far as he could see in all directions" they took some back with them and tested them on an atlas 4 replacing its four smaller boosters with 1 nk33 it was 20% more efficient and prouduced 25% more thrust!
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Channel 4 documentry i saw few years ago i think it was called "rockets which came in from the cold" or similar + search google for nk33 and rocket they used recirculated gases to increase effiecency and therefour thrust, the key to there success was the experimental procedure used i build it try it it blows up change slghtly blows up after longer time... and so on until it works. Others looked at the problem couldnt see a way to make it work and said it was impossible, hence the survay team not believing the claims they knew that it was impossible. Thank you i think i'll stick with physics anything over 100 words gives me a headache. ;)
And yes i did notice the sarcasm i just didnt rise.
The soviets fixed there fuelling and thrust balancing issuses in 1973 with the nk33 engines but the americans had already landed, so they tried to pretend that they had never tried to send a man there, hence the caring comment in above post. As a side note the finallly perfected engines for the N-1 the Nk33 and 43 are the most advanced and highest performance liquid O2/kerosene engines ever built and when they where ordered to be destroyed with the rest of the hardware, to aid the cover up, the enginners who built them hid them away. Then after the end of the cold war in the mid ninties an american firm scouting out russia for space services heard rumours of rocket engines with to them unbelievable performance figures, so they called there guides bluff and asked to see them, of course he took them to this desserted whearhouse and when they stepped inside one of the americans described the site as "a forrest of rocket engines as far as he could see in all directions" they took some back with them and tested them on an atlas 4 replacing its four smaller boosters with 1 nk33 it was 20% more efficient and prouduced 25% more thrust!