THE VIDEO SHELF · soviet rocket engines
The Engines That Came In From The Cold - And how The NK-33/RD-180 Came To The USA
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Matthew Travis
- Topic
- soviet rocket engines
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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These engines were talked about in the documentary *The Engines That Came In From The Cold" [VIDEO] I watched it on netflix myself. Fascinating stuff.
ianstallings on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoffIts interesting to me that while in the US, we were spearheading the computer revolution with our cutting edge semiconductor industry, Soviet rocket designs remain pretty much unsurpassed to this day.[0] There's a cool documentary called "The Engines That Came In From The Cold" (available …
cartoonworld on Hacker News · 2021-06
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