The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic explosions became ...

For the first N-1 launch, the rocket was powered by 30 of these closed-cycle engines, each running at about 1/6 of the thrust of a Saturn V engine. Whether you’re shaking or nodding your head at ...

Transporting the necessary equipment for the Martian mission into Earth's orbit required about 30 launches of the N1 rocket, the Soviet equivalent of the American Saturn rockets. Unfortunately ...