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, ...

MOSCOW -- A 1 1/2-ton Russian rocket was reported better than halfway on a journey to the moon today, and Radio Moscow jubilantly announced Soviet plans to establish a base there. A brief Moscow ...

The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet ... around the moon when we did, because they were so close. Their Lunar Module vehicle, the N1, obviously ...

experimental N1 moon rocket had blown up at the launch pad, causing one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. The dream of beating the Americans was finished and the Soviet engineers ...

Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off from Cape Canaveral ... the Russians seemed poised to send a man to the moon. Russian technology had the Americans worried ...

Nedelin, the head of Soviet rocket forces. The accident is officially ... February 1969 – The Soviet Union’s N1 Moon booster explodes during its first test flight, killing 91 people on the ...