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Post by Moon Man on Dec 30, 2006 23:35:38 GMT -4
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Post by LunarOrbit on Dec 31, 2006 0:20:00 GMT -4
Too bad it exploded every time they tried to launch it.
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Post by Jason Thompson on Dec 31, 2006 11:08:07 GMT -4
We already know the N1 was motre powerful than the Saturn V, Moon Man. However, because of its construction it could not loft such a heavy payload. With 2.5 million pounds of thrust over the Saturn V, it could still only send a smaller Soyuz craft with two men, and a one man lunar lander, to the Moon.
But more pertinent than that, four test launches resulted in four very large explosions, one of which destroyed the launch facility and damaged a rocket on a neighbouring launchpad 500m away.
The Saturn V remains the most powerful successful rocket.
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Post by Bob B. on Jan 1, 2007 15:35:02 GMT -4
The most powerful rocket ever built. And it's not the Saturn V, or American, as I've told you all along. Soviet N1 Lunar Rocket That depends on how you define "most powerful". The N-1 was more powerful only in that its first stage had a greater liftoff thrust. However, due to the use of LOX/LH2 in its second and third stages, the Saturn V had greater total impulse and could therefore lift a larger payload. When you total the performance of all stages, the Saturn V was more powerful than the N-1.
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reynoldbot
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Post by reynoldbot on Jan 2, 2007 17:12:51 GMT -4
I didn't know that rocket science consisted of making vague insinuations and linking to wikipedia.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 4, 2007 10:00:12 GMT -4
I didn't know that rocket science consisted of making vague insinuations and linking to wikipedia. Not even the Wikipedia entry agrees with the departed Moon Man. In fact, what others said of the N-1 is also said on Wiki. Appearently, MM failed to read it.
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