N1 soviet moon rocket (Excerpt of "BBC - Space Race")
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this video is a excerpt of th BBC documentary series "Space Race". This sequence recreates the launch and the problems of the N1 soviet moon rocket. Español/Spanish: Este video es un extracto de la serie de documentales de la BBC "Space Race". En esta secuencia se recrean los problemas del cohete lunar soviético N1 (equivalente al Saturno V americano) y el lanzamiento, con el catastrófico final del mismo (la mayor explosion de un cohete en la historia).
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Moscow, we have a problemski.
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The N-1 was a magnificent rocket, the Soviet Union's version of the U.S. Saturn V rocket...but it failed to live up to it's U.S. Counterpart. After the fourth failed launch, Russia decided to abandon it's Lunar Project and move on to Space Station development.
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The Russians actually had a proven rocket to get to the Moon. It was the D-1-e "Zond" moon rocket. It had all the capabilities to reach Russian men to the Moon. Look it up
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N1 - this is the correct rocket 2700tons, but it failed to send 5 tons and 2 man on the moon.
It is an axiom - 2.7 tons - the maximum mass of the payload, such as the lunar module with one astronaut.
But the United States sent a rocket to 5 tons to 3000 tons - a paradox and mysticism. -
It was a giant, amazing looking rocket! It wasn't as elegant as our Saturn 5 but it had a beauty all its own. I think it was slightly taller than the Saturn V, but not by much. The launchpad structural service towers however, were much taller than the american towers and contained some wacky-looking antennas and lightning deflection apparatus'.
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that's what the Soyuz were designed for. Problem there was that would require rapid launches so the capsules would not run out of resources also docking was in it's infancy.
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but they had no designs for such large rocket engines
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A plumbers nightmare!
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Russia is a massive, MASSIVE country, and Baikonur is in the middle of nowhere. Also there were undoubtedly guards on all the roads for miles around (and in the middle of nowhere, being off the roads is almost a death sentence). Cold war, remember?
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yeah, looks boss!
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you know how big russia is xd? nobody ever notices there
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To eliminate catastrophic failures the N1 engineers at that time should of went for the design much like the Saturn V. Instead of 30 rockets engines it just be 5 big engines.
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Baikonur is a pretty long way from anywhere that would really be noticeable.
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@Segasaturn95 yeah looks like a tower, but engines are too close to the outside
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"...explodes with the force of a nuclear bomb." "...the failure is a state secret for twenty years." Erm, what?
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@monimstarfox Well, I agree 100%, It is a barrn and a dead place for sure. I thought they want to build bases there! Then again, the US will never have money for such projects. We are becoming third world man.
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@shasha1873 the moon is a worthless piece of crap its barren and dead why spend another 100 billion when were in the middle of a recession and nasa plans to send astronauts there by 2020 The moon is almost like Antarctica its barren and has no worth other countries can go there but they choose not to because its a wasted effort
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@SunnBurn Are you sure we landed on the moon? How come we are not going back?
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@SunnBurn Hope it will change to "first nation" to have landed on the Moon
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It's true. If we knew better, we'd not fling ourselves off into the voids of space, but it's mankind's nature to challenge and upset the established order of things.
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