What do you think is the most beautiful launch vehicle in the world?

Its beauty lies in its shock to Leo's super-large carrying index of 200 tons+and GTO's super-large carrying index of 70 tons+. (Although this super rocket named Zhu Rongxing, the final version of the energy series, did not celebrate its birthday and glory with the collapse of the Soviet Union);

Its beauty lies in that seven or eight zenith booster rockets equipped with RD- 170, one of the most powerful liquid oxygen kerosene engines in the world, are still completely tied around its main arrow, thus constructing a grand, rough and vigorous aesthetic design of industrial violence;

Its beauty lies in that red empire, as always, persevered from the place where it fell, rallied and continued to write its own legend and glory successfully, even though it experienced such a painful failure in the field of space science and technology and in the competition with its arch rival, the United States, whether because it was unwilling to admit failure or out of its pursuit and love for the stars and the sea in the universe.

"If love holds a torch in the wind and mourns fiercely, all kinds of tastes will be in it." -Rachel's Dream of Youth

For a long time, there have been two ideas and schemes for developing large thrust (carrying capacity) rockets in the aerospace field all over the world:

① It is composed of several engines with large thrust, such as liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid oxygen and kerosene, which give the arrow enough thrust.

(2) A large number of small thrust engines "forcibly" pile up "the thrust, so as to form and give the arrow enough thrust.

The representative of the scheme (1) is the Saturn V launch vehicle of the United States.

The representative work of scheme ② is the famous N 1 rocket, which was first developed by the Soviets in the early moon race with the United States.

It's just that this so-called "name" is almost entirely composed of desolation and desolation, leaving a disappearing ending in the long river of history.

The tragic ending of four strikes and four defeats completely declared the failure of the N 1 rocket project and the total defeat with the United States in the race to the moon. At the same time, it also gives scheme ② a complete death penalty, which is a design idea of forcibly "piling up" the total thrust (carrying capacity) of the rocket by a large number of small thrust engines conceived (fantasized) by the Soviets in the early days.

Is it painful? Of course it's painful; Is it a big blow? Of course it's big. However, the Soviet Union, as one of the only two superpowers in the world and human history, is the only one that can fight to the death with the United States in all fields of military industry and science and technology. Will it be arrogant, will it give up its continued competition with its rivals, and will it give up its yearning and pursuit for the vast universe and the sea of stars?

Is it not feasible to pile up rocket thrust through a large number of small thrust engines? Ok, I'll develop a large thrust liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen engine RD-0 120, with a vacuum thrust 1.6 kn and a vacuum impulse of 455 seconds, which is almost not inferior to the SSME； of your corrupt capitalist Yankee.

Isn't the F 1 liquid oxygen kerosene engine on the core of Saturn V rocket that beat me out of the water in the manned race to the moon very powerful? Let's take a look at how it compares with RD- 170, a large thrust liquid oxygen kerosene engine with a vacuum thrust of 8062kN and a vacuum specific impulse of 337.2 seconds (3315 N s/kg) (a self-proclaimed space power in East Asia in the south has not touched its threshold and fur until forty or fifty years later).

As a result, after the former N 1 rocket project was completely annihilated, the indomitable Soviets learned from their mistakes and rallied, adopting the design idea of "consisting of several high-thrust liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen/liquid oxygen kerosene engines, and giving the rocket enough thrust", and successfully pointed out the above two corresponding "science and technology trees" in practice, and the first generation was comparable to that of Americans.

Do you think this is over? Based on this, the Soviet Union's ambition (brain hole) even extended to the Vulkan-Hercules launch vehicle, which belongs to the scale and carrying capacity limit of chemical-powered launch vehicles. By bundling 4-8 zenith booster rockets around the rocket;

The final version of LEO is bundled with eight zenith rocket boosters-1+8 core version of the "ultimate wish star" rocket, which is said to reach more than 200 tons.

What concept? This is an ordinary subway train running in an ordinary city in China, with a total weight of about 150 ~ 200 tons;

Then use the whole body ravaged interstellar launch vehicle. The whole train can be launched out of control and transported to the orbit of the near-earth satellite, together with thousands of passengers in the subway train, including you and me.