Tap-Sa - 4/4/2006 3:40 PMI think that would be Orion.
Jim - 4/4/2006 6:07 PMQuoteTap-Sa - 4/4/2006 3:40 PMI think that would be Orion.Orion is a nuclear pulse rocket, only for deep space, not for trips to LEO
Jim - 4/4/2006 5:08 PMLook at this thread. there was no need to start a new onehttp://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=581&posts=62
publiusr - 12/4/2006 2:29 PMThe Soviet model allowed the Chief Designers to have their way. That and they kept their Air Force away from space. I think if the ABMA had dominance in space with our Air Force being kept the heck away from Space--we would have seen Von Braun in a position of Glushko or Korolov with Medaris as his Ustinov.
Zoomer30 - 18/4/2006 1:42 AMI think it was called NOVA. All the old "rocket posters" from the day showed all the Saturn rockets and then after the SatV they had the Nova. The first stage was gonna have like 9 F1 engines or some insane amount like that. I think the SatV was the best for the time. Getting 5 liquid fuled engines to start right was a feat. Main reason the N1 was doomed from the start. That thing had around 30 engines in the first stage alone
Svetoslav - 20/4/2006 3:00 AMThe most powerful vehicle that completed a successful flight is Energia. It successfully launched Polyus and Buran.
Jim - 12/4/2006 8:45 PMQuotepubliusr - 12/4/2006 2:29 PMThe Soviet model allowed the Chief Designers to have their way. That and they kept their Air Force away from space. I think if the ABMA had dominance in space with our Air Force being kept the heck away from Space--we would have seen Von Braun in a position of Glushko or Korolov with Medaris as his Ustinov.Soviets had no idea what was going on. The Chief Designers were lose cannons.Von Braun could have never been Korolov. Von Braun only did LV's, Korolov did manned spacecraft, umanned, and whole lot more.Our system served us well. The Army had no business in space. The NRO did more for space than ABMA
publiusr - 28/4/2006 6:04 PMQuoteJim - 12/4/2006 8:45 PMQuotepubliusr - 12/4/2006 2:29 PMThe Soviet model allowed the Chief Designers to have their way. That and they kept their Air Force away from space. I think if the ABMA had dominance in space with our Air Force being kept the heck away from Space--we would have seen Von Braun in a position of Glushko or Korolov with Medaris as his Ustinov.Soviets had no idea what was going on. The Chief Designers were lose cannons.Von Braun could have never been Korolov. Von Braun only did LV's, Korolov did manned spacecraft, umanned, and whole lot more.Our system served us well. The Army had no business in space. The NRO did more for space than ABMAOnly because space was robbed from the Army. The NRO did little for space apart from keeping Titan alive. I like that the Chief Designers were loose cannons. If you remember, the artillery men were at the R-7 sites for quite awhile. The Army had every business in space. Missiles are forms of artillery. Fighter jocks run the Air Farce and will sit on space. I think Medaris would have been much better than Bernie Schriever if given the chance. Medaris got the larger test stands built even though there wasn't a need for them with Redstone. I recommend his book COUNTDOWN FOR DECISION as a good counter to what the Air Force folks want you to believe. It wouldn't surprise me if the fudged the numbers on costs and what not now accepted in today's literature.