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Artifact
N-1
Soviet Moon rocket, a counterpart to the Saturn V. It never made a successful flight.
- Dates
- 1969–1974
- Also known as
- N1 rocket, N-1 rocket
- Wikidata
- Q622762
Connections 1
developed by
- Sergei Korolev 1962 Primary record 12
Timeline 2 dates
- 1962 Sergei Korolev developed N-1
- 1969–1974 N-1
Proof 2 sources
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Sputnik Biographies: Sergei P. Korolev (1906-1966), NASA History Division, 8 Feb 2005.
Primary record
His design bureau began work on the N-1 launch vehicle, a counterpart to the American Saturn V, beginning in 1962.
Korolev and other aerospace engineers were thrown into the Soviet prison system in 1937-1938 during the peak of Stalin's purges.
On 14 January 1966 Sergei P. Korolev died from a botched hemorrhoid operation.
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A Soviet Moonshot: Interpreting the Diaries of Vasily Mishin, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Scholarship & press
All four uncrewed flight tests of the N-1 ended in failure. The N-1 program was canceled in 1974, and the Soviet crewed lunar program passed into oblivion.
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