12 Reasons Why the USSR Never Got to the Moon

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 .