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The Engines That Came In From The Cold - And how The NK-33/RD-180 Came To The USA
Matthew Travis
A Channel 4 Equinox documentary on the NK-33 engines built for the Soviet N1 moon rocket and how they ended up in the USA. It includes rare footage and interviews with veterans of the early Soviet space program.
HN recommends it as a fascinating history of Soviet staged-combustion engines and why they stayed in use in American rockets.
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