Soviet N1 rocket in Orbiter 2010

Mike81262 Says:

May 25, 2012 - This video is not accurate.... the rocket never exploded.

Alembic25 Says:

Mar 27, 2012 - Interesting video. The story of the N1 is very sad. Underfunded, underdeveloped and undertested it was bound to fail. Chief engineer Mishin was driven to the bottle by the stress. They also missed Korolev's magic touch. I've always felt that the basic concept was good but there were so many development areas that weren't fully bottomed out partially due to managment drawbacks.

AlchemistCH Says:

Mar 15, 2012 - Actually, there are rather many mistakes in the model and staging sequence. One of the most interesting features in Russian rockets is stage separation: 1)previous stage to minimal thrust 2) next stage ignition 3) separation 4) previous stage cutoff 5) engine fairing separation.

ollenhauer1 Says:

Mar 7, 2012 - build a n1 rocket,korolov deid sowejet kant build

Winner8501 Says:

Dec 31, 2011 - If the guy survived though, he'd be a much more hardcore hero (of the Soviet Union :-D ) than Armstrong.

IASOU2005 Says:

Dec 30, 2011 - The LK lander only sent one man all the way down to the moon. There's no way in hell I'd make that trip...by yourself on the f*cking moon for 2 days. How bout let's not and say we did!

Ferrariman601 Says:

Dec 9, 2011 - I say the USA man-rates the Atlas V and Delta IV, revives the Saturn V, and the ESA revives Energia. That would be on my list of things to do as supreme emperor of the world. :P

LordBFC Says:

Nov 1, 2011 - Interesting, to see the sequence how everything should had worked. Thanks for the video.

chillaxer1993 Says:

Oct 20, 2011 - when you have 30 engines youre gonna have problems. good idea but too many things to go wrong. like a little piece of metal getting stuck in a pump. it shuts down the whole fucking rocket.

VanBremen07 Says:

Aug 20, 2011 - Not really----the first stage was just a many standard engines put together, 30 NK-15 engines (LOXRP1), which is why it did not work----too unreliable. In fact it blew up.

dziltener Says:

Aug 15, 2011 - The most interesting thing about the N1 is IMO that the first stage, because of the many engine, functioned like an aerospike engine - before they even "invented" the aerospike engine.

hdufort Says:

Aug 10, 2011 - Too bad they didn't settle to a medium-lift rocket equipped with 6 to 8 side boosters. This would have been easier to test and much more reliable.

Winner8501 Says:

Aug 5, 2011 - If the Soviets had made it to the Moon too and perhaps decided to build a base there, the Americans would never have abandoned the Apollo programme - they would have to continue competing with  the Soviets in space for prestige reasons. Maybe they'd decide to go to Mars and there would be another race.

maximkazhenkov11 Says:

Aug 4, 2011 - I wonder whether the space race would go on if the Soviets made it to the moon.

EmperorOfMars Says:

Jul 31, 2011 - meh, you should read about the sea dragon rocket or the nova. America's super mega heavy lift rockets that never took flight

Winner8501 Says:

Jul 31, 2011 - Depends. The first N1 indeed had a rather small payload capacity. The subsequent versions were to utilize hydrogen/oxygen upper stages, which would eventually give it about 150 tonnes to low-Earth orbit capacity - about 30 tonnes more than Saturn V. N1 was to be a beginning of a whole family of rockets, that would replace some of Russia's existing boosters. Too bad it didn't happen.

EmperorOfMars Says:

Jul 31, 2011 - The Saturn V had a much larger cargo capacity though

lettucemonster Says:

May 3, 2011 - Got to love the "Buy the Hymn of the Soviet Union on iTunes" advert next to the video - not entirely sure Lenin would approve LOL

Winner8501 Says:

Feb 8, 2011 - I agree. Had the Soviets successfully tested the N1, it would have been much harder for the Americans to abandon Saturn-V - simply because that would have given the Soviets a monopoly on heavy-lift rockets, which would have been unacceptable during the Cold War. Today, the lack of heavy-lift rockets is the reason (or rather an excuse) why humans aren't going beyond low Earth orbit.

nesokretep Says:

Feb 8, 2011 - It's too bad this thing didn't work. It would have been good for NASA to have had the competition. Maybe Americans would have stayed more in tune with the space program if they had had someone to compete against. Maybe we'd have that moon base already. (Or maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey would have really happened!)