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Yeah, having fun with it already 
For what I thought would be the easiest engine on this list, it is awfully poorly documented. According to Astronautica, the S-5N used the NERVA 1, which from what I can tell is the same as the NERVA XE-Prime. That makes sense timewise, too. The issue is that the best reference photos I can find for it are the following:
This is the best I have right now, it's a photo of the BDB XE-Prime:
This would be a good reference, but it's an actual photo of a reference.
There's also the Saturn V NTR upper stage here, but that's basically just the S-IVB with a skirt extension:
I'm really suprised that I can find blueprints for the NERVA RNS and not the XE. You'd think there'd be something, but I can't find it. I doubt it's still classified, but still, it's really weird.
For what I thought would be the easiest engine on this list, it is awfully poorly documented. According to Astronautica, the S-5N used the NERVA 1, which from what I can tell is the same as the NERVA XE-Prime. That makes sense timewise, too. The issue is that the best reference photos I can find for it are the following:
This is the best I have right now, it's a photo of the BDB XE-Prime:
This would be a good reference, but it's an actual photo of a reference.
Orion
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Yea, odd
Well at least you have some scale to work with
Btw once I finish my PC I'm planning on doing some Cold War era Soviet rockets, like BR-Apollo and Mac's mod. There's not really any mods for that side of the space race.
I can barely run unity on my current setup
Well at least you have some scale to work with
Btw once I finish my PC I'm planning on doing some Cold War era Soviet rockets, like BR-Apollo and Mac's mod. There's not really any mods for that side of the space race.
I can barely run unity on my current setup
OUR PC?
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I'm planning on the Proton-K (And maybe M) Vostok, Molniya, and Soyuz with most of the configurations. (Ambitious, I know.)
LK Lander, N-1 maybe if I still have my sanity. Maybe even future concepts like their moon base.
I'm gonna start with Proton, then Soyuz, then go back and do Vostok and Molniya if possible.
Then any of our comrades on the forum could pretty much do the whole Space Race in SFS.
I'm planning on the Proton-K (And maybe M) Vostok, Molniya, and Soyuz with most of the configurations. (Ambitious, I know.)
LK Lander, N-1 maybe if I still have my sanity. Maybe even future concepts like their moon base.
I'm gonna start with Proton, then Soyuz, then go back and do Vostok and Molniya if possible.
Then any of our comrades on the forum could pretty much do the whole Space Race in SFS.
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Orion
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AEP 1.2.3 is out, as with most of my recent releases it's just a basic visual upgrade. Do not fret, the NERVA 1 and LH2 S-IVB are coming Soon™, as well as a blueprint for the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle. On a similar note, if anyone feels the need to contact me I'm fairly active on this server.
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Update: the Unity modding tool is more or less broken for me, so I'm taking a bit of a break from modding. Someone else is working on some cool stuff, like a magnetic mirror fusion engine and an open cycle gas core NTR, so keep an eye out for that. Will resume work on AEP when I get the modding tool working again.