On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Ian Woollard wrote:
> >likely to develop multi-engine vehicles in the foreseeable future.
> >
> There's also the Russian N-1 'moon' rocket as a datapoint...
> They NEVER managed to launch it successfully ;-)
That had much more to do with inadequate testing -- for example, there was
*no* static testing of the complete first-stage propulsion system, none --
than with any inherent problem with large numbers of engines.
(Similar dire predictions were made about the 8-engine cluster of the
Saturn I first stage, which worked flawlessly on every flight, including
surviving single-engine failures twice.)
Henry Spencer
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