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Soviet Union
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R-7
Vostok
| Size: |
38 m (126 ft) |
| Thrust: |
4,029,000 newtons
(905,500 lb) |
| Payload to orbit: |
4,700 kg (10,400
lb) |
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of RSC Energia
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N-1
| Size: |
105 m (347 ft) |
| Thrust: |
44,100,000 newtons
(9,900,000 lb) |
| Payload to orbit: |
95,000 kg (209,000
lb) |
| Payload to Moon: |
30,000 kg (66,000
lb) |
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of RSC Energia
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SOVIET
N-1 MOON ROCKET
In
the early 1960s, Korolëv's design bureau began work on a multipurpose
heavy-lift rocket--the N-1. In 1964 it was approved for redesign
and use in the manned lunar program.
Begun
under Korolëv and tested under Mishin, the N-1 rocket suffered
from critical technical problems that doomed Soviet efforts to land
a man on the Moon by 1970. All four unmanned flight tests of the
N-1 ended in failure. The N-1 effort was canceled in 1974, and the
Soviet manned lunar program passed into oblivion.
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