Ed Kyle wrote:

The halfway decent condition of the booster in
this photo makes you wonder if the Korolev bureau
ever tried, at least experimentally, to recover
and reuse these things.


I was somewhat surprised to see the photo of the one with the motors
still on it- although most of the motor was fairly cheap metal, the
turbopumps and plumbing should have had some alloys in them that would
have scrap metal value.
Does anyone know what the catalyst is for the hydrogen peroxide
generator that drives the turbopumps? Sometimes silver is used, and that
would be certainly worth recovering.

Pat