Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <7353@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 88 18:18:35 GMT
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1988Oct20.180651.25023@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1988Oct20.180651.25023@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> The first stage is N2O4/UDMH, I think.  I know it's not hydrogen; Energia
> has the first big Soviet hydrogen engines.

OK, but what about Energia, the Shuttle booster?  What's in the central
tank, and the strap-on side tanks?
Might the central tank contain both LOX and LH2 like ours to feed
all the strap-ons, and the strap-on "tanks" are parachutes?
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