While the Saturn vanadium made headline shuttle American astronauts to the synodic month , the Soviet N1 rocket was made famous for a slightly different reason — when it blow up on charade it ensue in the largest , non - nuclear , man - made explosion of all metre . This week’sOobjectshowcases the N1 and 11 other pieces of Soviet Moon tech used in the USSR ’s conk out moon scoot .
Be sure to also check off out theseSoviet Satellites , theseripoffs from the Bloc , and theseUSSR - designed computer systems .
One of the 5 remaining LK landers
N-1 base showing the 30 NK-15 engines
Note the people in the background knowledge for the monolithic scale .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xc87zr9PI4
N1 preparation and launch video
Soviet N1 moon rocket exploding
Soviet LK Lunar Lander
2 N1 rockets on the launch pad
Soyuz 7K-L3
This form the orbital fate of the Russian Moon programme , In conjunction with the N1 Rocket and LK lander
Krechet Soviet moon suit
N1 compared to Saturn V moon rocket
The N1 is slightly smaller and was designed to carry a maximal freight of 90 dozens vs 120 tons , but it had high poke .
N1 NK-33 engine, still used today
The only bit of the N1 program to live on was the NK-33 engine , which have been examine for economic consumption today , by Orbital Sciences , the companionship that formerly owned the orbiter mathematical function system now used by Google Maps .
Parts of the N1 in a Baikonur childrens playground
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