Espacio

So here are some images of the finished launch version. Let’s start with the exploded view, showing how all the parts fit together:

Identifying N-1 variants. I mentioned this briefly in an earlier post, which featured some images I stitched together from video, but here it is in a bit more depth. You are generally trying to dis…

Soyuz cutaway

The N1 was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. The N1 was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V, planned for crewed travel to the Moon and beyond, with studies beginning as early as 1959. Its first stage, Block A, was the most powerful rocket stage flown for over 50 years, until Starship's first integrated flight test. However, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed in flight, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle...

Сверхтяжелую ракету-носитель Н-1 прозвали «Царь-ракетой» за ее большие размеры (стартовый вес почти 2500 тонн, высота – 110 метров), а также

The final configuration of the N1-L3, with the six extra engines on the first stage. Illustration by Alexander Shliadinsky.

N-1Soviet moon rocket

Project Almaz

Soviet Rocket Plan

“Pure gold, in my opinion. Recently declassified plans for the Glushko projects after the N-1 was cancelled, and before Energia / Buran.”

Identifying N-1 variants. I mentioned this briefly in an earlier post, which featured some images I stitched together from video, but here it is in a bit more depth. You are generally trying to dis…