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This is very interesting! Soviet/Russian rocket failure footage is hard to come by. This FB page gets a like from me! (Not to say rocket failures are the best thing- they are terrifying to those involved, disappointing, and God forbid, sometimes injure or hurt people. They just are quite...

Yes, but it is still ironic. Not to say that they were related, but the incidents are eerily similar - this is likely a simple creepy coincidence, considering that, as you said, the rockets, technology, and background are completely different- N1-5L: Rocket lifts off, engine explodes, control...

1. I don't know. 2. Whether or not NASA does, it has already been posted to YouTube. 3. I did not know that... maybe a classified payload a la early Space Shuttle DoD missions? I was thinking an experiment of sorts. You would think it would be on the Cygnus itself, as I doubt the US would want...

^^ Apollo 8 had CECO on the S-II the graph I linked to shows a drop in g force which goes with CECO. That graph was recorded on Apollo 8.

^Interesting, although one should note that the N1 had 30 engines, and the 6 center ones are part of the 30 (2 rings, 24 engines on the outside and 6 on the inside.) Didn't the Saturn V do something similar where the center engine of the first stage would cut off before the rest of them (and...

Ah. I once saw a video of N1-5L's launch showing the escape system firing as the rocket reached its peak. It didn't show the explosion, though. You can't see the top of the rocket until the escape system goes off, but you can make out the rocket leaning over precariously. If cosmonauts were on...

It's a bit sad that NASA won't be doing another mission after this until 2017, and no manned mission until 2020. Will the SLS really only be tested once (2017) before a manned flight? This sort of confuses me. And why was Constellation cancelled? The SLS is quite similar to the Ares V. Anyways...

Yeah, the N1 probably would have been a great rocket, if a bit inefficient. Maybe if they improved on it, they could have gotten a much better heavy-lifter. I know it was untested. The Saturn V went through lots of issues with its F1 engines during testing, but these were obviously worked out...

I don't play Orbiter any more - I'm more of a Kerbal Space Program guy. However, I still love space, and I figured that this would be a better place to discuss this than the KSP forum. Anyways, I used to be obsessed with the N1 Soviet lunar rocket. For those of you who don't know, it was a...

N1 Videos I found three rare N1 videos... I'm not sure if all of them are actually the N1 (as in, is the explosion the real deal?) but it is worth posting. Remember that the N1 was Russia's attempt at a Moon rocket.

Considering how hot they are, maybe Hades and Cerberus?

Aw crud. Maybe if a miracle happened, and this is not a piece of PG, they could fly it to an asteroid? But by now, I'd give that about a .01% chance of happening. Such a shame, that the first sample return from a planet failed...

This is just sad...

^If only they could orbit it... how often do Pluto launch windows come along ;)

So let me get this straight - the basement can be trolled and whatnot?