Comment Re:Just because... (Score 1) 333
Works for me though. The RD-171 mounts to the bottom of the Zenit launcher as a single unit and gimbals as a single unit so I'd call it a single motor. The derivative RD-180 (half the number of combustion chambers, powers the Altas V series of boosters) is again a single motor. Like I said, some folks and especially Americans don't like the idea that the Rockwell F-1 wasn't the most powerful motor ever to fly and will attempt to weasel out of the facts.
And "beloved"? Uh, no. I may be strange but I'm not that strange. I do know people who have rocket engines in their garage though. The only bits I've got even remotely like that are some solar cells that fell off the back of a satellite.