Soviet Moon Rocket

TestBoy writes "There is a decent article about the Soviet Union's moon rocket and why it was doomed to fail. From one of the pictures on the website, you realize how large just one of its multiple engines were."

Comments

It just goes to show...

[Lonath]

Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it. I get told that all the time, so it must be true.

Trouble

[Drachemorder]

I don't know why they had so much trouble getting the thing to work. This isn't rocket sci.... oh. Never mind.

"Moon Rocket?"

[cjpez]

Come on, at least make it "destruktor-module 7" or something. Then again, I suppose ours wasn't really that great.

(okay, so I just wanted to try out my new .sig . . .)

The Mishin Mission

[Caractacus Potts]

Here's a link to some cool drawings of the N1's. Of course, these drawings mean nothing. My theory is that the Soviet moon mission was as faked as the US one. Here's photographic proof that the N1's were only about 15 ft tall! Seeing is believing. You do believe me, don't you?

Re:Froydian Engine Sizes

[cube farmer]

Wow. That's a pretty big rocket engine. It makes you wonder if the engineers who designed it were compensating for something..

Uh... Gravity and inertia?

Re:Lots of engines

[Dolly_Llama]

a rocket sharing the same basic design as the one that launched Sputnik 1

What do you mean by sharing the same basic design? Pointy end up - Fiery end down?