Man, I have to say, people in the 60's/70's were f'kin crazy. The level of technological advancement they brought in those two decades was off the charts. And all that with basic instruments. Computers were a joke then but it's marvelous to see what the human mind can achieve without much help from machines when truly focused. I hope we don't forget what we're capable of once we reach AI supremacy
it seems pretty certain we will, just as noone knows how to start a fire in the woods, or how to navigate by the stars (or anything other than a smartphone for that matter), or any of the other myriad skills that we have lost as technology has taken them over. AI is the ultimate usurpation, it will eventually take over most people's thinking. Maybe 99% will live there lives like internet vegetables, just stimulated by some virtual worlds that AI conjures up to entertain them.
Yes their computers were a joke but we wouldn't have our gaming super computer rigs today without the computer and chip technology that was first put into those spacecraft. We have to start somewhere
@@ph11p3540 i was only contemplating human artfulness. Of course chips are part of that too. I meant that today is definitely easier to do things since we have computers to do the huge calculus and data management, things in the past had to be done manually and still got to do marvels
Да, сейчас врядли кто-то с помощью простой логарифмической линейки и листочка бумаги сможет рассчитать орбиту до Луны или Марса. А ведь первые космические аппараты типа Луна-2 не имели тормозных или маневровых двигателей, то есть их надо было направить точно в цель с расстояния 384000 км. Я вас уверяю это совсем не так просто как кажется на первый взгляд.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
Я тоже вижу большинство этих кадров первый раз. Казалось бы, я всё знаю об этой ракете, а испытываю волнение, глядя это кино. И гордость и горечь... Я застал эту ракету в цехе уже после закрытия программы. Колоссальное впечатление!
@@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke An important thing to remember is that Korolev was a god-tier manager of space stuff, and made sure shit got done without making stuff coffins (compared to some other stuff the soviets had cooking). He wasn't an engineer though, and never had an education in it.
@@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke only for the one-man capsule to fail during descent or ascent to/from the moon...I think the cosmonauts selected for the moon got away with their lives.The russians have some memorable successes, but the moonshot was just a tad above their level, or for what they had available technologically. Plus the value of a human life is also a tad less there. Komarov was a prime example of how decisions were made back then.
Thanks for uploading and sharing this. I've seen a lot of N1 footage, but a lot of what is in this video is brand new to me. Saved to my "Space" playlist. Thanks again.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
This is fantastic. Even as an American, I genuinely love the N-1 and wish they could have gotten at least one successful flight out of it. What the Soviet engineers came up with in spite of the limited resources they had to work with in comparison to Apollo was brilliant in its own way.
As a Russian, I am glad that the N-1 could not take off. Because the N-1 was originally built as a rocket that could deliver a huge nuclear warhead. Well, you know, all these games with space were to the detriment of the population. This was all done to the detriment of the standard of living of citizens.
@denfilm6005 The N-1 was not built for war. It was built to fly to the moon. It was far bigger than would ever be needed to carry a nuclear warhead, similar to the Saturns on the American side.
@@Nidhogg13 You apparently do not understand the structure of the Soviet state. There, initially everything was done for the army, and only then, if it was suitable, for the civilian industry. The N-1 was designed to deliver primarily military super-heavy cargo. Putting a man on the moon is just a cover. In the lunar race, the market economy defeated the planned economy.
@@denfilm6005 That is simply not true. If anything, it would be the other way around - it was for putting a man on the moon, but it was sold to the state as being for delivering super heavy military cargo. Sergei Korolev had a lot of trouble getting the Soviet government to back the project because of how much it would cost for its dubious military usefulness.
As someone who grew up in a family who all worked at NASA, I always wanted the N1 to be successful. I wish they would have been given the time to make the N-1 reliable. But the truth is, the N-1 was a complicated machine. I’m not sure they could have solved the plumbing, and I don’t know if they had the ground computing resources for difficult missions. Who knows. Cool rocket though. That said, no engine gimbaling, (differential thrust at that time had to be a major obstacle), no engine testing, constructing the rocket first then transporting it, the N-1 had a lot going against it. Ultimately the NASA method of testing and redundancy won out in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Imo, the Saturn V is still the coolest rocket ever made. I would have loved to ride that beast.
@@unownyoutuber9049 The N-1's engines could not gimbal as they were fixed engines. The N-1's rockets used differential thrust to control direction. Just look at the bell of the rocket, which was flush with the base of the N-1. That's enough to tell you it could not have gimbaled.
@@unownyoutuber9049 No worries. Which engine or rocket were you thinking of? The Soviets never had a chance really. They didn’t have the ground mainframes, (NASA had IBM 360s - the unsung hero of Apollo), they didn’t have the spacesuits NASA had. The Soviets LEM was more of like a diving bell. The N-1 was a very cool rocket, but I think even if they successfully launch with humans, I’m not sure they make it to the moon. That’s just speculation.
What amazes me is that this was done with slide rules,graph paper, drafting tables and simple computer programming,quite primitive compared to the vast amount of technology used today….fascinating and fantastic!😮
The engines that came in from the cold....These Closed Cycle engines were developed for this rocket. They were something that the U.S thought impossible, or if not impossible, way to dangerous. The project was scrapped after the U'S landed on the moon. In the eighties they bought around 15 of these engines (which had been stored against orders to destroy them) from the Russians and used them to launch satellites in former ICBM's.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
@@davidkavanagh189Работы по Н-1 продолжались после высадки на Луну ещё 5 лет. До 1974 года. Все участники работ были уверены, что очередной, 5-й пуск будет успешным. Были отработаны новые двигатели НК-33, которые имели огромный ресурс и все 100% отрабатывались на стенде. И вот когда почти всё было готово пуску, было принято решение закрыть программу. Увы...
@@krossbolt4100 The Antares rocket experienced a failure with one NK-33 engine back in 2014, during its fifth launch, and Orbital Sciences stopped using them afterwards (went with the RD-181 instead).
It must have been an exciting time back then in the late 60s / early 70s. And where are we now 60 years later - not much further on... A complete generation without a real step ahead in space travel.
Sorry, what? The Shuttle? Numerous Russian launches and space stations. The ISS space station. Unmanned missions to Mars, flying a robot helicopter on another planet? Deep Space 1. Ion drives. The turnover of low earth orbit to commercial development as government invents another industry. The beginnings of warp drive.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
Fun Fact: the N1 a rocket designed in the 1960's in the soviet union with slide rules out preforms Starship/superheavy the biggest rocket ever made. and it doesn't outperform it by a small margin but almost by double.
Кто что видит, кто что ищет... Ты ищешь провалы великой страны... Мухи ищут говно... Поражает масштаб задуманного! Уже в четвёртом полёте не хватило нескольких секунд до отделения первой ступени. Газодинамика, конструкция, принципы управления выжимали максимум из имеющегося. Через год-другой ракета бы летала. Успех был уже у Энергии. Это другое время и другие технологии.
This is far beyond an awesome video! I never imagined the scale of the rocket as it is filmed here! I knew it was big, but just how big... WOW! It's a shame that Sergei Korolev's dream was never fully realized. The effort to put together something like the N1 is so off the scale, especially when one puts it in the context of the Soviet centralized hierarchy! What a man he must have been to take it as far as he did! I feel sad for him and all who put every fiber of their being into making this baby go! 00:56 - You gotta love a guy in the Soviet Rocket Service wearing a Hawaiian shirt to work!
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a lot of engines in a single sentence. In fact such an approach makes it easier to maintain the vehicle. You run into problems when your engines suck and literally can't be tested before being used, and your vector is controlled by thrust differential rather than gimbaling. But mainly if the engines suck and can't be tested. That doomed all four N1 flights.
@@VEC7ORlt Sure, that's true enough. But it's worth underscoring that both solutions-many small engines or a few big engines-should work just fine, all else being equal. The problem remains that the N1's engines were designed to work exactly once and so they couldn't be tested before launch. Combine that with poor manufacturing standards and the result is really kind of obvious in hindsight.
Russia is a disgraced child who has pottied in its Sandbox and it's knickers have fallen down . Putin is a killer of innocent people men women children.
If Korolev did not die in 1966 today space would look diffent,USSR would land on the moon and then USSR and USA would compete for colonization there ,maybe we would have people on Mars by now
Концепция многодвигательности Королева, заложенная в «лунную» ракету с успехом показала себя в ракетах Илона Маска (даже если отказывал один из двигателей, это не сказывалось на выводе ракеты на орбиту]
@@allanbradshaw3498 The lander was a one-man ship, 2 men down to the surface was off the table, they had such tight margins. NASA's margins were quite a bit broader.
Totally agree. A beautiful machine. If it had undergone more testing i.e. static fire engine tests, and development, it would have had incredible potential. A great pity.
по факелу видно на сколько эффективна была такая схема расположения двигателей, уверен еслиб королев не умер то он бы добавил несколько сквозных отверстий на корпусе ведущих к нижний части, там где не стояли двигатели и где образовывались фатальные скачки давления
Управление одной только тягой двигателей слишком рискованная идея даже сегодня. У НАСА на Старшипе двигатели отклоняются, и то Маск лишь с 4 раза запустил эту хрень в каком-то виде
@@shoora813NASA имеет отношение к старшипу только в рамках лунной программы, в остальном это частная разработка. И да, успешно 1 ступень отработала во 2 полëте. В 3 успешно всë, что касается выхода в космос. В четвëртом успешная посадка ускорителя на воду и +-успешная посадка подгоревшего корабля.
@@nordvoda SpaceX with Starship, only now they're building a flame trench/diverter and already built one for upper stage static fire test facility at Masseys, they should've done that in the first place. Ignoring lessons already learned in the past is stubborn and dumb.
Есть такая поговорка: "если бы у бабушки был хуй, она была бы дедушкой" Компьютеров не было, она не полетела. Денег на испытания не было, она взорвалась. У американцев были компьютеры, сатурн 5 полетел. Были деньги на испытания и устранения болезней и недочетов, не было и крупных аварий. Если бы если бы... какой в этом смысл, наивные детские мечты.
All because of Valentin Glushko, who (although he was the most outstanding Soviet rocket engine expert) turned out to be an informer and, when the secret police interrogated him, denounced the future head of the space program, his friend Korolyev, who was sentenced to 10 years in a hard labor camp for this reason. Korolyev, as the chief designer of the N-1, could not, for reasons of honor, entrust the construction of the main engines of the N-1 first stage to this snitch. The engines were designed by Kuznetsov - an outstanding specialist, but in jet engines, not rocket ones... The American Saturn V had 5 engines in the first stage, Kuznetsov could not create such gigantic engines - that's why the first stage of the N-1 had 30 (!) of them. Thirty - which means at least 6 times more chance of failure. And that was the nail in the coffin of the Soviet lunar program. In none of the N-1 flights did the first stage with 30 engines operated properly. The primary cause of this huge (as a whole program) disaster was Glushko's lack of moral backbone and weakness of character. A typical representative of the Soviet elite of the nation.
Klasse Bilder und tolle Leistung Russland! Eure Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure haben schon echt tolle Maschinen gebaut. In der Luft- und Raumfahrtechnik macht euch keiner etwas vor. Schön, dass IHR die Guten seid!
I would like to see the training films of cosmonauts entering and descending from the LK. Years ago, A&E’s “Time Machine” program showed a short clip of a fully-suited cosmonaut descending the LK ladder. THAT would be interesting and would complement this excellent video.
I do believe they would have succeed to bring a payload in LEO if the 2 next flight hadn't been cancelled (8L and 9L). Even the fourth flight was 7 sec away of second stage hot firing. It's easy to write this, hindsight is 20/20 but what I love about the USSR moon program is that chief engineers were already thinking of the next step: a moon base around 70's/80's. The USA would have been in a bit of a pickles as NASA was transitionning from Saturn Apollo to Space Shuttle in the 70's. Space shuttle would have continued development but politicians would have pushed for an american manned structure on the moon as quick as possible. Well who knows...
As far as I understand it, the N1 was made cheaper and faster than the Saturn V. It was a brilliant piece of engineering. It’s a shame it fell just short of its mission.
Just short is a bit of an understatement, but in my opinion, I think they made it too complicated with their technology of the time. Also, I saw somebody else compared this to SpaceX(most likely starship), but I'm gonna go out and say that these 2 engine beasts are no where near the same, for example Starship has been able to develop alot fast and rapidly when compared to the N1, another thing is that starship actually kept developing to complete the mission it was given on flight 1 where as the N1 was dropped after (idk like 3 or 4) unsuccessful test flights.
Two of them blasted off during launch because of unpredictable vibrations. They could have made tests, they surely could have fixed it, but thew saw the race is lost, and dropped the project. Sad thing, we could have got a new type of rocket. The Starship of SpaceX is a similar solution to N1.
What they lacked was resources to do extensive ground tests of engines, control systems, etc. Korolev had to battle Politburo for resources, Mishin didn't have his skills so getting resources was even more difficult. There were those in Politburo debating among themselves about a moon mission. James Harford in his about Korolev, one of the former Soviet engineers said when Kennedy announced a race to the moon, Soviets either get into the race or not. They did neither.
The Soviets could never have landed an cosmonaut on the Moon because they did not have the instantaneous computing capability that the Apollo had aboard. By the time a radar signal left a descending capsule at the Moon's surface, reached a fast computer in the USSR, solved the orbital equations and returned an answer to the Soviet capsule, the velocity and position of the capsule would be completely different. Landing would be only a matter of luck.
Yup, and it was a one-man lander too. It was a desperate attempt to beat the Americans, but they always lagged behind. So they focused more on space stations.
The lack of computation capability was not a problem. They had Argon family, I guess Argon 11S was for the lander. Of course it was also problematic, as about every part of the N1 program.
All they had to do was test the engines together all firing at the same time, and the issue would been discovered in a day, Soviet man would walk on the moon. But for some people its more important to meet deadlines then it is to do good work.
Великая страна, великие дела, великие люди и великие победы. Как ничтожен по сравнению со всем этим сейчас пу, со своими потугами, воровством и постоянным враньём....
@@Paul1958R They actually did. RD-170 family is one of two (along with Merlin) most powerful and reliable engines on Earth. But it is much easier and more reliable to control direction of thrust with gimbal, than balancing thrust of multiple engines by throttling opposite engine
@@surfspark probably not. They started with schema, to shut down engine, that opposite to failing engine. Thus still had an issue. The biggest problem was that USSR could allocate at most 1/10th or money, USA had distributed for pure propaganda Apollo mission. Russians simply did not wanted to pay for machined fuel/oxygen tanks of Saturn-V. Or for 1000 trial runs of Rocket engine. Cost of Saturn/Apollo gears was insane for the time being. Prohibitive for USSR
It sure was an impressive looking beast. It’s a pity they never managed to get it to work, if the Soviets had managed to reach the Moon then the US might have reconsidered giving up on Apollo
Wow, that whole model setup at 8:13 is super cool! I wonder if they just built it to demonstrate everything to the higher ups or if it was actually used for planning and engineering purposes.
A little comparison: N-1 4 starts, 4 disasters, 0 successful starts Staurn V 13 starts, 0 disasters, 13 successful starts Is there anything else that needs to be added?
@@AndreySmirnov77 Unnaturally smooth? Didn't it occur to you that the Americans, unlike the Russians, had done a great job of engineering, had done multiple tests, and were the first to use a computer control system. There were no secrets, no miracles. BTW: there are several archive videos on YT showing very precisely the amount of work done and the size of the financial outlay.
it's also very clear that photography technology of Soviet Union was far behind the US. Since the start of Space race, we've seen excellent footages from US missions. But I've never seen such good images/videos from USSR.
The N-1 used a flame trench design with three chutes. Interesting. The N-1 was Korolev's biggest blunder. He tried to upstage von Braun's series stage Saturn V by building the series stage N-1, but with inferior engine technology. Korolev had a perfectly fine parallel stage launch vehicle in the R-7 and its upgraded version, the Soyuz launch vehicle. He could have developed an enlarged version of the Soyuz using the engines built for the N-1 with enough payload capability to put two cosmonauts on the lunar surface in 1968 or 1969.
not sure what you're saying. In a way the idea has lived on because SpaceX pursued it. Now we have a successful flight with 33 engines at launch using full flow staged combustion engines on the 4th try. The engines didn't fail, rather they performed nominally throughout the flight.
@@punishthemeatpocket Starship blew up on every flight except the last one, what are you waffling about. The only thing it didn't do is explode on the pad, and they're extremely lucky that didn't happen on the first flight.
The Soviets could never successfully synchronize all 30 first stage engines of the N1 rocket due to inadequate static testing. All 4 launches were failures and the last one in November 1972 was shortly before the last Apollo mission. The death of Korolev in 1966 was a big setback. SpaceX Starship first stage (Super Heavy) looks a lot like the N1. N1 had 6 inner engines surrounded by 24 in the outer ring. Super Heavy had 20 engines in the outer ring, 10 in the middle ring and 3 in the inner ring.
"Rare", you say? I grew up in the Space Age, and never heard of this until I was in Engineering School. I might have seen a sketch or mechanical drawing, but never a color picture, much less film. I'd almost say that (in the US) it has been sort of written out of history! There's a lot of things like this.
Look familiar? Yep, Musk's rocket is nothing more than a copy of the old Soviet N1 (with modern electronics) .Also, the N1 looked way cooler than the Saturns. The CORD system was a problem though.
Не знаю. У меня с самого начала, когда я только увидел в каком-то источнике изображение этой ракеты, в голове возникла мысль что это полететь не может. Что это Царь-ракета (по аналогии с Царь-пушкой и Царь-колоколом). Это апофеоз советской монструозности в ущерб здравому смыслу и тонкому мышлению. Большевистский молот, закономерно выродившийся в кувалду имени пригожина. Можно конечно говорить, что эта конструкция "опередила время", ну так не надо время опережать-то. Время ухватится сзади и оставит без штанов...
Some of the pictures show two side by side. Surely you would not launch with another one only a few hundred metres away? An accident with one could take out the other.
Man, I have to say, people in the 60's/70's were f'kin crazy. The level of technological advancement they brought in those two decades was off the charts. And all that with basic instruments. Computers were a joke then but it's marvelous to see what the human mind can achieve without much help from machines when truly focused. I hope we don't forget what we're capable of once we reach AI supremacy
it seems pretty certain we will, just as noone knows how to start a fire in the woods, or how to navigate by the stars (or anything other than a smartphone for that matter), or any of the other myriad skills that we have lost as technology has taken them over. AI is the ultimate usurpation, it will eventually take over most people's thinking. Maybe 99% will live there lives like internet vegetables, just stimulated by some virtual worlds that AI conjures up to entertain them.
Yes their computers were a joke but we wouldn't have our gaming super computer rigs today without the computer and chip technology that was first put into those spacecraft. We have to start somewhere
@@ph11p3540 i was only contemplating human artfulness. Of course chips are part of that too. I meant that today is definitely easier to do things since we have computers to do the huge calculus and data management, things in the past had to be done manually and still got to do marvels
El😊n Musk...
Да, сейчас врядли кто-то с помощью простой логарифмической линейки и листочка бумаги сможет рассчитать орбиту до Луны или Марса. А ведь первые космические аппараты типа Луна-2 не имели тормозных или маневровых двигателей, то есть их надо было направить точно в цель с расстояния 384000 км. Я вас уверяю это совсем не так просто как кажется на первый взгляд.
I've seen so many videos of the N1 exploding it's nice to see some footage from prior to it going big boom boom
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
Я тоже вижу большинство этих кадров первый раз. Казалось бы, я всё знаю об этой ракете, а испытываю волнение, глядя это кино. И гордость и горечь... Я застал эту ракету в цехе уже после закрытия программы. Колоссальное впечатление!
It's not like we live in a field of anti-Soviet saturation propaganda or anything, it must just be an oversight!
It is astonishing. The engineering, the man-centuries of effort. They didn't plan to fail. It's tragic.
The N-1 was missing just one irreplaceable item, Korolev!
The question is, would Korolev actually have made it fly successfully?
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 I believe Korolev would have made the N1 successful.
@@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke An important thing to remember is that Korolev was a god-tier manager of space stuff, and made sure shit got done without making stuff coffins (compared to some other stuff the soviets had cooking). He wasn't an engineer though, and never had an education in it.
@@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke only for the one-man capsule to fail during descent or ascent to/from the moon...I think the cosmonauts selected for the moon got away with their lives.The russians have some memorable successes, but the moonshot was just a tad above their level, or for what they had available technologically. Plus the value of a human life is also a tad less there. Komarov was a prime example of how decisions were made back then.
We will never know, won't we?
Or was it... "We won the moon race because our Germans were better than their Germans." - American German.
Thanks for uploading and sharing this. I've seen a lot of N1 footage, but a lot of what is in this video is brand new to me. Saved to my "Space" playlist. Thanks again.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
This is fantastic. Even as an American, I genuinely love the N-1 and wish they could have gotten at least one successful flight out of it. What the Soviet engineers came up with in spite of the limited resources they had to work with in comparison to Apollo was brilliant in its own way.
As a Russian, I am glad that the N-1 could not take off. Because the N-1 was originally built as a rocket that could deliver a huge nuclear warhead. Well, you know, all these games with space were to the detriment of the population. This was all done to the detriment of the standard of living of citizens.
@denfilm6005 The N-1 was not built for war. It was built to fly to the moon. It was far bigger than would ever be needed to carry a nuclear warhead, similar to the Saturns on the American side.
@@Nidhogg13 You apparently do not understand the structure of the Soviet state. There, initially everything was done for the army, and only then, if it was suitable, for the civilian industry. The N-1 was designed to deliver primarily military super-heavy cargo. Putting a man on the moon is just a cover. In the lunar race, the market economy defeated the planned economy.
@@denfilm6005 That is simply not true. If anything, it would be the other way around - it was for putting a man on the moon, but it was sold to the state as being for delivering super heavy military cargo. Sergei Korolev had a lot of trouble getting the Soviet government to back the project because of how much it would cost for its dubious military usefulness.
@@denfilm6005 Using kerosene and liquid oxygen makes the N-1 entirely unsuitable as a nuclear weapon.
As someone who grew up in a family who all worked at NASA, I always wanted the N1 to be successful. I wish they would have been given the time to make the N-1 reliable. But the truth is, the N-1 was a complicated machine. I’m not sure they could have solved the plumbing, and I don’t know if they had the ground computing resources for difficult missions. Who knows. Cool rocket though. That said, no engine gimbaling, (differential thrust at that time had to be a major obstacle), no engine testing, constructing the rocket first then transporting it, the N-1 had a lot going against it. Ultimately the NASA method of testing and redundancy won out in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Imo, the Saturn V is still the coolest rocket ever made. I would have loved to ride that beast.
Pretty sure the NK-15's had gimble. I don't know where your getting that from.
@@unownyoutuber9049 The N-1's engines could not gimbal as they were fixed engines. The N-1's rockets used differential thrust to control direction. Just look at the bell of the rocket, which was flush with the base of the N-1. That's enough to tell you it could not have gimbaled.
@@TheSteveSteele My bad, I was thinking of another engine. You are correct.
@@unownyoutuber9049 No worries. Which engine or rocket were you thinking of? The Soviets never had a chance really. They didn’t have the ground mainframes, (NASA had IBM 360s - the unsung hero of Apollo), they didn’t have the spacesuits NASA had. The Soviets LEM was more of like a diving bell. The N-1 was a very cool rocket, but I think even if they successfully launch with humans, I’m not sure they make it to the moon. That’s just speculation.
@@TheSteveSteele I remember reading about a speculative upgrade to the NK-15 or maybe 33 that included gimble. I honestly don't remember where though.
What amazes me is that this was done with slide rules,graph paper, drafting tables and simple computer programming,quite primitive compared to the vast amount of technology used today….fascinating and fantastic!😮
The engines that came in from the cold....These Closed Cycle engines were developed for this rocket. They were something that the U.S thought impossible, or if not impossible, way to dangerous. The project was scrapped after the U'S landed on the moon. In the eighties they bought around 15 of these engines (which had been stored against orders to destroy them) from the Russians and used them to launch satellites in former ICBM's.
The project was not scrapped after the US landed on the moon. They kept working on for another couple of years after that.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
NK-15 and NK-33
@@davidkavanagh189Работы по Н-1 продолжались после высадки на Луну ещё 5 лет. До 1974 года. Все участники работ были уверены, что очередной, 5-й пуск будет успешным. Были отработаны новые двигатели НК-33, которые имели огромный ресурс и все 100% отрабатывались на стенде. И вот когда почти всё было готово пуску, было принято решение закрыть программу. Увы...
@@krossbolt4100 The Antares rocket experienced a failure with one NK-33 engine back in 2014, during its fifth launch, and Orbital Sciences stopped using them afterwards (went with the RD-181 instead).
This old Soviet stuff looks similar to the Starship rocket with the 33 Raptor engines :D
@@nixxonnor Yet it lacked digital control. In the end, their best just wasn't good enough.
Yes, it's because Elon Musk is the reincarnation of Korolev. 🫠
@@Baloo_Warcraft Well, hopefully he won't be spending time in Gulag this time around.
It worked about as well too...
@@Baloo_Warcraft😂 Yeah, cause he's designing Starship and micromanaging SpaceX.
It must have been an exciting time back then in the late 60s / early 70s. And where are we now 60 years later - not much further on... A complete generation without a real step ahead in space travel.
Sorry, what? The Shuttle? Numerous Russian launches and space stations. The ISS space station. Unmanned missions to Mars, flying a robot helicopter on another planet? Deep Space 1. Ion drives. The turnover of low earth orbit to commercial development as government invents another industry. The beginnings of warp drive.
@@PirateRo333 yes a lot of trash in earth orbit, that's it 🤷♂
@@PirateRo333 "warp drive" such pop sci nonsense...
@@Enneaphen I’m sure the moon landing was nonsense, too.
@@NetzKanal the same kind of trash you find in the streets of any emerging civilization.
8:16 They even had a model sized mock up of the transport procedure.
That whole launch site looks massive.. impressive.
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
I honestly would have loved to see where the moon race went if N-1 actually made an entire perfect flight.
We would have definitely lost...
Совковое дерьмо. Хватит восхищаться ими. Советские люди - это те, кто сейчас расчеловечивает запад, мечтает уничтожить вас потому что завидует, занимается геноцидом в Украине. Нет никакой русской культуры, русской науки, все худшее было украдено русскими у Западной цивилизации и у США. Хватит все сваливать на Сталина, Хрущева, Путина. Вам надо понять, что русские не хотят свободы и ненавидят вас. Гоните их из своих стран, пока не поздно....
A situation not unlike that depicted in the TV series "For All Mankind".
Fun Fact: the N1 a rocket designed in the 1960's in the soviet union with slide rules out preforms Starship/superheavy the biggest rocket ever made. and it doesn't outperform it by a small margin but almost by double.
@@salland12false. The thrust for version 3 of Starship will be double of N1.
Великая была страна! Масштаб провала просто ПОРАЖАЕТ!!!
Кто что видит, кто что ищет... Ты ищешь провалы великой страны... Мухи ищут говно...
Поражает масштаб задуманного!
Уже в четвёртом полёте не хватило нескольких секунд до отделения первой ступени. Газодинамика, конструкция, принципы управления выжимали максимум из имеющегося. Через год-другой ракета бы летала.
Успех был уже у Энергии. Это другое время и другие технологии.
This is far beyond an awesome video!
I never imagined the scale of the rocket as it is filmed here!
I knew it was big, but just how big... WOW!
It's a shame that Sergei Korolev's dream was never fully realized. The effort to put together something like the N1 is so off the scale, especially when one puts it in the context of the Soviet centralized hierarchy!
What a man he must have been to take it as far as he did!
I feel sad for him and all who put every fiber of their being into making this baby go!
00:56 - You gotta love a guy in the Soviet Rocket Service wearing a Hawaiian shirt to work!
Considering what SpaceX is doing...they weren't far off in hindsight. Great footage.
Yeah I a few Super Heavy Booster vibes look at the underside.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a lot of engines in a single sentence. In fact such an approach makes it easier to maintain the vehicle. You run into problems when your engines suck and literally can't be tested before being used, and your vector is controlled by thrust differential rather than gimbaling. But mainly if the engines suck and can't be tested. That doomed all four N1 flights.
Wasn't the lot of engines the answer to a similar problem the us had with combustion instability, but they solved it and soviets didn't.
@@VEC7ORlt Sure, that's true enough. But it's worth underscoring that both solutions-many small engines or a few big engines-should work just fine, all else being equal. The problem remains that the N1's engines were designed to work exactly once and so they couldn't be tested before launch. Combine that with poor manufacturing standards and the result is really kind of obvious in hindsight.
@@Asterra2 oh, that sucks, didn't know that.
Hello everyone, this is a reupoad.
The previous one got taken down due to a copyright strike.
Thanks for reuploading. I was trying to find it before this week
@@thesnowspeaksfinnish LOL me too, I looove this video. What a fine rocket it was, and the background music is sublime too :)
Russia up to no good on the internet probably
Russia is a disgraced child who has pottied in its Sandbox and it's knickers have fallen down . Putin is a killer of innocent people men women children.
The imperialist swine are at it again, comrade, but they cannot stop us.
We never did find out if the second stage would work.
If Korolev did not die in 1966 today space would look diffent,USSR would land on the moon and then USSR and USA would compete for colonization there ,maybe we would have people on Mars by now
Экономически затратно высаживаться на Луну. Смысла нет воевать за неё.
Like in "For all mankind" series
No chance!
Концепция многодвигательности Королева, заложенная в «лунную» ракету с успехом показала себя в ракетах Илона Маска (даже если отказывал один из двигателей, это не сказывалось на выводе ракеты на орбиту]
При условии что неисправный двигатель отключается до взрыва.
сечас электроника совешенно другого уровня вот она и позволяет управлять таким колличеством двигателей
Brilliant footage !-but the N1 was doomed from day one
This Soviet titan is beautiful, I would have liked to see it reach the moon
I agree the Russians should be congratulated on trying to develop a manned moon rocket
@@allanbradshaw3498 The lander was a one-man ship, 2 men down to the surface was off the table, they had such tight margins. NASA's margins were quite a bit broader.
Totally agree. A beautiful machine. If it had undergone more testing i.e. static fire engine tests, and development, it would have had incredible potential. A great pity.
Americans? Not so much
Its design and manufacturing were severely limited by lack of advanced technological base.
по факелу видно на сколько эффективна была такая схема расположения двигателей, уверен еслиб королев не умер то он бы добавил несколько сквозных отверстий на корпусе ведущих к нижний части, там где не стояли двигатели и где образовывались фатальные скачки давления
Управление одной только тягой двигателей слишком рискованная идея даже сегодня. У НАСА на Старшипе двигатели отклоняются, и то Маск лишь с 4 раза запустил эту хрень в каком-то виде
И Н1 бы полетела нормально.Еще 2-3 запуска и все заработало б.Просто одним махом свернули.Просрали гонку и уж очень дорого она обходилась.
@@shoora813NASA имеет отношение к старшипу только в рамках лунной программы, в остальном это частная разработка.
И да, успешно 1 ступень отработала во 2 полëте. В 3 успешно всë, что касается выхода в космос. В четвëртом успешная посадка ускорителя на воду и +-успешная посадка подгоревшего корабля.
Right On Awesome
It was so freaking pretty.
Even the Russians knew a big rocket needs a big flame diverter!
Кому как не русским это знать и уметь.
Even??????
@@nordvoda SpaceX with Starship, only now they're building a flame trench/diverter and already built one for upper stage static fire test facility at Masseys, they should've done that in the first place. Ignoring lessons already learned in the past is stubborn and dumb.
Thanks for this 👍🚀🇳🇿
Мне удалось побывать на вершине башни 1978году. Грандиозное впечатление производит !
Космодром не охранялся ?
Bы поступил туда разведчиком ? 😃
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50
А может это просто бордель, как и везде 😆😆😆
Fascinating material. ❤
What an excellent video! Huge rocket! Great time it was!
На современных компьютерах эта ракета полетела бы!!!
Есть такая поговорка: "если бы у бабушки был хуй, она была бы дедушкой"
Компьютеров не было, она не полетела. Денег на испытания не было, она взорвалась.
У американцев были компьютеры, сатурн 5 полетел. Были деньги на испытания и устранения болезней и недочетов, не было и крупных аварий.
Если бы если бы... какой в этом смысл, наивные детские мечты.
impressive. they turned 4 minutes of old video into 14. the n1 story is amazing, we all want to see new footage.
Saturn v was awesome but some of the soviet stuff just looks cooler visually
The N1 was stronger than Saturn V by almost 60%. I now doubt NASA.
Гений С. П. Королёв и его гениальная лунная ракета СССР Н-1!!!❤
Конструкция Н-1 плохая. Баки подвесные - лишний вес.
@@ИзяШнобельманэто было вынужденное решение, т.к. использовался переохлажденный жидкий кислород.
@@olegtokarev5648 А в Сатурне -5 какой кислород использовался?
@@ИзяШнобельман по-моему, кипящий.
С точными расчётами в С.С.С.Р. вечная проблема. Утюг-то нормальный просчитать не могли.
All because of Valentin Glushko, who (although he was the most outstanding Soviet rocket engine expert) turned out to be an informer and, when the secret police interrogated him, denounced the future head of the space program, his friend Korolyev, who was sentenced to 10 years in a hard labor camp for this reason.
Korolyev, as the chief designer of the N-1, could not, for reasons of honor, entrust the construction of the main engines of the N-1 first stage to this snitch. The engines were designed by Kuznetsov - an outstanding specialist, but in jet engines, not rocket ones... The American Saturn V had 5 engines in the first stage, Kuznetsov could not create such gigantic engines - that's why the first stage of the N-1 had 30 (!) of them. Thirty - which means at least 6 times more chance of failure. And that was the nail in the coffin of the Soviet lunar program. In none of the N-1 flights did the first stage with 30 engines operated properly.
The primary cause of this huge (as a whole program) disaster was Glushko's lack of moral backbone and weakness of character. A typical representative of the Soviet elite of the nation.
The music slaps
If slaps means sucks - Yes it slaps hard.
2ч Артемьев!
Pure beauty, one of my two favourites. The second one: Energia!
Klasse Bilder und tolle Leistung Russland! Eure Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure haben schon echt tolle Maschinen gebaut. In der Luft- und Raumfahrtechnik macht euch keiner etwas vor. Schön, dass IHR die Guten seid!
Ernsthaft? 😂😂 Man kanns auch echt übertreiben junge. Ich würde mal sagen zur Zeit macht Musk den Russen ziemlich was vor und China ebenso.
Ernsthaft? 😅
Man kanns auch echt übertreiben junge 😂
Ich würde mal sagen zur Zeit machen Musk und China deinem tollen Russland ganz gehörig was vor 😅
Ich würde sagen zur Zeit machen Musk und China ihnen ganz gehörig was vor 😂
For anyone wondering, second song is:
ua-cam.com/video/0XxKSjwVA0k/v-deo.htmlsi=x5196K9w2EmNJZS4
the for all mankind music is completeing this
Sounds like part of the music was Resurrection by PPk.
Sounds much older than PPK. Wonder if they drew some inspiration from this song? Been trying to find the name of this uniquely soviet sounding song!
Turns out its probably Поход ("Crusade") written by Eduard Artemyev for the 1979 Soviet movie Siberiade.
PPK music was based on old movie Pokhod (The Jorney) soundtrack, and original theme was made by Artemyev.
I first saw a film of this “unseen” N1 in 1996.
"Rare Footages of the Soviet N1 Moon Rocket | N1 L3 Lunar Complex | Soviet Space Program"
Where does it say 'unseen' in that?
@@Asymmetrical-Saggin It did until they changed it, apparently just after I posted that. It said "rare unseen footages." I guess they got my point.
Sure they did....
Imagine your 200 HP sport fishing boat powered by fifty 4 HP engines--all fed from the same fuel tank. That's the N1. Just nuts.
I would like to see the training films of cosmonauts entering and descending from the LK. Years ago, A&E’s “Time Machine” program showed a short clip of a fully-suited cosmonaut descending the LK ladder. THAT would be interesting and would complement this excellent video.
That For All Mankind OST man, nailed it
I do believe they would have succeed to bring a payload in LEO if the 2 next flight hadn't been cancelled (8L and 9L). Even the fourth flight was 7 sec away of second stage hot firing. It's easy to write this, hindsight is 20/20 but what I love about the USSR moon program is that chief engineers were already thinking of the next step: a moon base around 70's/80's. The USA would have been in a bit of a pickles as NASA was transitionning from Saturn Apollo to Space Shuttle in the 70's. Space shuttle would have continued development but politicians would have pushed for an american manned structure on the moon as quick as possible. Well who knows...
Never seen before, thanks.
As far as I understand it, the N1 was made cheaper and faster than the Saturn V. It was a brilliant piece of engineering. It’s a shame it fell just short of its mission.
Just short is a bit of an understatement, but in my opinion, I think they made it too complicated with their technology of the time.
Also, I saw somebody else compared this to SpaceX(most likely starship), but I'm gonna go out and say that these 2 engine beasts are no where near the same, for example Starship has been able to develop alot fast and rapidly when compared to the N1, another thing is that starship actually kept developing to complete the mission it was given on flight 1 where as the N1 was dropped after (idk like 3 or 4) unsuccessful test flights.
Two of them blasted off during launch because of unpredictable vibrations. They could have made tests, they surely could have fixed it, but thew saw the race is lost, and dropped the project. Sad thing, we could have got a new type of rocket. The Starship of SpaceX is a similar solution to N1.
What they lacked was resources to do extensive ground tests of engines, control systems, etc. Korolev had to battle Politburo for resources, Mishin didn't have his skills so getting resources was even more difficult. There were those in Politburo debating among themselves about a moon mission. James Harford in his about Korolev, one of the former Soviet engineers said when Kennedy announced a race to the moon, Soviets either get into the race or not. They did neither.
@@gregor_manthe only similarity is the number of engines
The Soviets could never have landed an cosmonaut on the Moon because they did not have the instantaneous computing capability that the Apollo had aboard. By the time a radar signal left a descending capsule at the Moon's surface, reached a fast computer in the USSR, solved the orbital equations and returned an answer to the Soviet capsule, the velocity and position of the capsule would be completely different. Landing would be only a matter of luck.
Yup, and it was a one-man lander too. It was a desperate attempt to beat the Americans, but they always lagged behind. So they focused more on space stations.
The lack of computation capability was not a problem. They had Argon family, I guess Argon 11S was for the lander. Of course it was also problematic, as about every part of the N1 program.
So majestic. But they never got a grip on pogo.
Server Korolev Dream machine N1 an impressive engineering
This rocket even killed its own engineers! Man speaking of dark history! 💀🤯
If Korolev had lived another five years we'd probably have seen at least one successful N-1 flight.
😅😅😅Im Impressed!!
All they had to do was test the engines together all firing at the same time, and the issue would been discovered in a day, Soviet man would walk on the moon. But for some people its more important to meet deadlines then it is to do good work.
Une fusée qui ressemble au communisme, superbe en théorie, mais trop compliqué à faire fonctionner.
Великая страна, великие дела, великие люди и великие победы. Как ничтожен по сравнению со всем этим сейчас пу, со своими потугами, воровством и постоянным враньём....
Абсолютно так.
It's a shame they couldn't figure out how to make it reliable. It was a beautiful rocket
The N-1 system with only throttle control of engines is too ambitious even today.
Oh they knew how to make it reliable. They just didnt have enough money.
@@Paul1958R They actually did. RD-170 family is one of two (along with Merlin) most powerful and reliable engines on Earth. But it is much easier and more reliable to control direction of thrust with gimbal, than balancing thrust of multiple engines by throttling opposite engine
@@shoora813For me it seems engine throttling seems much simpler and reliable compared to gimble which needs complex mechanism and sensors.
@@surfspark probably not. They started with schema, to shut down engine, that opposite to failing engine. Thus still had an issue.
The biggest problem was that USSR could allocate at most 1/10th or money, USA had distributed for pure propaganda Apollo mission. Russians simply did not wanted to pay for machined fuel/oxygen tanks of Saturn-V. Or for 1000 trial runs of Rocket engine.
Cost of Saturn/Apollo gears was insane for the time being. Prohibitive for USSR
It sure was an impressive looking beast. It’s a pity they never managed to get it to work, if the Soviets had managed to reach the Moon then the US might have reconsidered giving up on Apollo
The name of the rocket N-1 looks like the counter of available launch attempts :)
Wow, that whole model setup at 8:13 is super cool! I wonder if they just built it to demonstrate everything to the higher ups or if it was actually used for planning and engineering purposes.
Только для начальства.
It is interesting that they already built 2 launchtowers etc when funding stopped after 4 launches
N1 King 👑
Regardless of the politics of the time this was an impressive piece of engineering. Only problem was it was made by the (defunct) Soviet Union.
A little comparison:
N-1 4 starts, 4 disasters, 0 successful starts
Staurn V 13 starts, 0 disasters, 13 successful starts
Is there anything else that needs to be added?
Perhaps that Nazi engineers were more qualified than Soviet engineers.
Да. Во втором случае всё прошло неестественно гладко.
@@AndreySmirnov77 Unnaturally smooth? Didn't it occur to you that the Americans, unlike the Russians, had done a great job of engineering, had done multiple tests, and were the first to use a computer control system.
There were no secrets, no miracles.
BTW: there are several archive videos on YT showing very precisely the amount of work done and the size of the financial outlay.
why did i immediately say "yes, of course commissar " when the music hit?
Because you've seen to much American movies.
becouse youre scared of G.U.A.N.T.A.N.O.M.O ???
Просрали великую страну ради мнимой свободы...
свободы больше нет
не парься
Особенно гимн про коммунизм понравился! 😂
@@ogbbig1 а теперь тебе чего нравиться? Может пальмуха? ну кушай на здоровье.
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 а кто же страну просрал? Расия первой вышла из состава ссср . Так кого здесь нужно пороть?!!!
@@ogbbig1 ничего подобного. Россия вышла из состава СССР одной из последних. Первыми вышли прибалты и кавказ
L Ancêtre du Starship.
Elle avait pourtant bien décollé.
Quel Dommage !?.
For all mankind soundtrack is rad!
Грандиозно!
it's also very clear that photography technology of Soviet Union was far behind the US. Since the start of Space race, we've seen excellent footages from US missions. But I've never seen such good images/videos from USSR.
Be happy for you
The N-1 used a flame trench design with three chutes. Interesting.
The N-1 was Korolev's biggest blunder. He tried to upstage von Braun's series stage Saturn V by building the series stage N-1, but with inferior engine technology.
Korolev had a perfectly fine parallel stage launch vehicle in the R-7 and its upgraded version, the Soyuz launch vehicle. He could have developed an enlarged version of the Soyuz using the engines built for the N-1 with enough payload capability to put two cosmonauts on the lunar surface in 1968 or 1969.
Power! Soviet power...
It had less engines than Starship and also the hot staging but it alas failed, what a pity!
the biggest fireworks display in history
Just "Space-X" with a better flame diverter.
Three launches. Three failures. "Collecting more data...".
Rocketship did better on the first try than N1 did on its fourth, and last.
not sure what you're saying. In a way the idea has lived on because SpaceX pursued it. Now we have a successful flight with 33 engines at launch using full flow staged combustion engines on the 4th try. The engines didn't fail, rather they performed nominally throughout the flight.
Starship never blew up prematurely... even when 4-5 engines were damaged on 1tf. N1 was an uncontrolled disaster when it failed.
@@punishthemeatpocket Starship blew up on every flight except the last one, what are you waffling about. The only thing it didn't do is explode on the pad, and they're extremely lucky that didn't happen on the first flight.
The Soviets could never successfully synchronize all 30 first stage engines of the N1 rocket due to inadequate static testing. All 4 launches were failures and the last one in November 1972 was shortly before the last Apollo mission. The death of Korolev in 1966 was a big setback. SpaceX Starship first stage (Super Heavy) looks a lot like the N1. N1 had 6 inner engines surrounded by 24 in the outer ring. Super Heavy had 20 engines in the outer ring, 10 in the middle ring and 3 in the inner ring.
Keşke başarılı olsaydı ❤❤❤
The Moog music is like Chariots Of The Gods 2:24
Do you have any links for these clips?
Даже нелетающего монстра создать тяжело.
Илон Маск гений!
Поражает то, как немцев могли "переплюнуть" так быстро. Вот, что значит "упоение в бою..."
Я горжусь тем, что я родился и вырос в этой стране! Ни одна страна в мире, испытав такие тяжести войны не смогла бы совершить это!
странно видеть Королева в видеоряде в контексте с N-1....
Can you post links to where you originally got the footage from?
Как это мы только галоши делали .
Wow!
Былые достижения великой цивилизации😊
да
умели совки деньги спускать вникуда
а люди еду купить не могли
Very underrated music.
The middle piece is by Edward Artemiev, a famous Soviet electronic music composer. Many documentaries of the 80's had this and other music he created.
@@bormisha Thank you so much!
"Rare", you say? I grew up in the Space Age, and never heard of this until I was in Engineering School. I might have seen a sketch or mechanical drawing, but never a color picture, much less film. I'd almost say that (in the US) it has been sort of written out of history! There's a lot of things like this.
Imagine the cost factor today.
Илон Маск пошёл этим же путём ☝🏻👍🏻
Porque esse foguete explodiu?
Look familiar? Yep, Musk's rocket is nothing more than a copy of the old Soviet N1 (with modern electronics) .Also, the N1 looked way cooler than the Saturns. The CORD system was a problem though.
How many potatoes did it cost?
Wow!
Не знаю. У меня с самого начала, когда я только увидел в каком-то источнике изображение этой ракеты, в голове возникла мысль что это полететь не может. Что это Царь-ракета (по аналогии с Царь-пушкой и Царь-колоколом). Это апофеоз советской монструозности в ущерб здравому смыслу и тонкому мышлению. Большевистский молот, закономерно выродившийся в кувалду имени пригожина. Можно конечно говорить, что эта конструкция "опередила время", ну так не надо время опережать-то. Время ухватится сзади и оставит без штанов...
Great country, Soviet Union!
Some of the pictures show two side by side. Surely you would not launch with another one only a few hundred metres away? An accident with one could take out the other.