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To: Jack Hydrazine

Early 1960s American technology upgraded with a Russian engine?


16 posted on 12/12/2014 7:02:08 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Atlas five had its maiden flight in 2002, but the RD-180 engines are Ruskie which has its roots in the Soviet Energia rocket project that was used to loft the Buran shuttle orbiter in to LEO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180


24 posted on 12/12/2014 7:14:42 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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