Name: It happened! NASA & SpaceX finally ENDED 20 years of depending on Russia's rocket engines! | Videos | Gan Jing World
Uploaded: 2022-08-23T00:00:00.000Z
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Description: It happened! NASA & SpaceX finally ENDED 20 years of depending on Russia's rocket engines! Huge thanks to: TijnM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA8yz_nQY-0... | Videos | Gan Jing World

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It happened! NASA & SpaceX finally ENDED 20 years of depending on Russia's rocket engines!
Huge thanks to: 
TijnM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA8yz_nQY-0Uxd96-qxYjA 
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“We design and manufacture our own rocket engines so we do not rely on any Russian components at all!”
Russia was once a space power.
They sent the first man and woman in space, performed the first lunar flyby using Luna 1, or launched a space flight with more than one crew member through Voskhod 1.
In particular, they had the RD-180 engine, which was better than any other rocket engine of its time in many ways. And in a marriage that would have been unimaginable at the height of the space race, this Russian engine was powering an American rocket.
This is why Russia has always threatened the US in the rocket industry for nearly two decades.
But now, it is no longer a threat!
After 20 years, NASA and SpaceX finally ended the shameful dependency on Russian rocket engines!
But how exactly did they do that? 
Everything will be exposed in today's episode of the Alpha tech channel.
Ok! Let's get started...
For many years, buying Russian-made RD-180 engines was seen as a good idea in the aftermath of the Cold War, especially when relations between the US and Russia had thawed and developing domestic RD-180s would have meant a significant investment from the US Government. The US is licensed to produce a domestic version of the RD-180 if it chooses to, but due to the lack of investment from government and industry, it has never done so.
As a result, it’s a decision that came back to haunt the US space industry as it clambers to find alternative ways to power the Atlas V in 2014 when Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin sent shockwaves through the US space industry when he announced that Russia would no longer supply rocket engines to the US.
An unpublished Pentagon study, written by retired Air Force Major General Mitch Mitchell in May and obtained by Space News, said an eventual Atlas V grounding would delay as many as 31 missions and cost the US nearly $5bn.
Everyone was worried and trying to hold on to Russia, except SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk who rattled the US military space launch market, challenging the monopoly of the United Launch Alliance by suing the US Air Force.
It happened! NASA & SpaceX finally ENDED 20 years of depending on Russia's rocket engines!