N1

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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 and was intended to enable 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 ever flown for over 50 years, with the record standing 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 crashing back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff. Adverse characteristics of the large cluster of thirty engines and its complex fuel and oxidizer feeder systems were not revealed earlier in development because static test firings had not been conducted.

Maquette à grande échelle de la fusée B1 1M1 sur la rampe de lancement du cosmodrome de Baïkonour fin 1967.Maquette à grande échelle de la fusée B1 1M1 sur la rampe de lancement du cosmodrome de Baïkonour fin 1967.
Mir-68Mir-68
KH-8 Gambit image of N1 rocket at Tyuratam Missile Test Center, USSR, 19 September 1968KH-8 Gambit image of N1 rocket at Tyuratam Missile Test Center, USSR, 19 September 1968
Лунный ракетный комплекс Носитель-1Лунный ракетный комплекс Носитель-1
Baikonur Cosmodrome imaged by KH-9.14 on 1972-11-16 (copy scale-2.00x)Baikonur Cosmodrome imaged by KH-9.14 on 1972-11-16 (copy scale-2.00x)
Mir-15Mir-15
Nutzlast N1Nutzlast N1
N1+Saturn5N1+Saturn5